all along

Now, when Norman examines the current landscape, he sees the players—the constituency he says he was fighting for all along—as better off.

We walk out into the dark rain, wondering what exactly we witnessed — and realizing, perhaps, we’ve been witnessing it all along.

This, of course, was the answer Madame had been seeking all along.

She had come to think it was out of friendship, for he had been distinctly helpful to them on several occasions—but had he merely been spying on them all along?

“But not only wolves. Someone knew all along—and still knows, judging by the freshness of the sandwiches—that there were three children living in the forest.”