I nodded slowly. ‘You’re right.’

‘Here is what I would like to suggest. Why don’t you take all this … all these papers and the books. Especially the books. Let’s put them in the car and drive up to the Lasithi Plateau. It’s beautiful at this time of the year with the olive trees and the windmills. I want to take you to the Psychro Cave, which is also known as the Cave of Zeus because they say that is where he was born. And I want you to put everything in a pile at the entrance and set fire to it as an offering to the gods, to thank them for bringing you back to me and to release you from all the dark shadows, the memories of what you’ve left behind. And after that I’ll take you to a little hotel I know near Kaminaki and we’ll have dinner together and we’ll sit on the terrace drinking raki, surrounded by the mountains and looking at the stars, because, believe me, there is nowhere the stars look more magnificent.’

‘Is Leo in the ascendant?’

‘I hope not.’

‘Then let’s go.’

And that’s exactly what we did.