He could only laugh at her response, a wide, toothy smile on his face. She seemed so set on defending Egypt, but he couldn't imagine her surviving a day there. The only reason he had was because he was raised there, and after all the time he'd spent back in Britain, he could hardly imagine surviving there without all the comforts of a civilized society.
"I've seen them a few times," he said. "They're pretty—and big, definitely big—but that's all they are. They don't allow children to lurk about the grounds. You'd get bored with them in, eh, three weeks?" Now a resort, he could imagine, could get boring after a while, too, but didn't everything? He would still very much like to see the zoo, walk the boardwalk, and...
"Hey, I can swim! For leisure, but I can swim!" he protested.
"I've seen them a few times," he said. "They're pretty—and big, definitely big—but that's all they are. They don't allow children to lurk about the grounds. You'd get bored with them in, eh, three weeks?" Now a resort, he could imagine, could get boring after a while, too, but didn't everything? He would still very much like to see the zoo, walk the boardwalk, and...
"Hey, I can swim! For leisure, but I can swim!" he protested.