Of course

  But Ivy's mother had once told her that it was at a precise moment in life, when everything seemed dark and doomed that things reveal themselves as they are and everything becomes clear and simple.

  Maybe she always knew it, although she tried all this time to deny it with every fiber of her being, but she had the strange certainty that if she were to be in danger and suffer horribly because of it, he would come to her rescue, if only to show her how right he was, that he was the best, and that in the end the world meant nothing to him but a huge playground where he played in a cruel and completely unpredictable way.