Ileana Fuentes, who is Sophia’s psychologist and has been for two years, explained it to me in about ninety seconds and I have never needed it explained again.

She said: “For fourteen months, being asleep was the thing that made her mother not come.

“She was told she was too ill to travel, or too tired for the call, or not up to a weekend.

Every single instance was framed to her as a fact about her body.

“She has concluded, correctly, on the information she was given, that her being asleep is the mechanism by which her mother is absent.

“Colonel Serrano, she is not asking whether you are angry.