Some were beginning to fall asleep, others were already moving and trying to get to their feet. Fat chance: women, the coarser their hair, the more insensitive they are – I found myself formulating one of the maxims I’d forget once I’d gotten over a hangover. They’re going to take one animal of each species and they’re going to put us all in this… However, he too died in the course of the afternoon… Although the water trickled from the trough into the lake, there was no doubt that the place under the pools would soon be crowded, for the lake had rather steep banks, and where I had woken up – and where it was more accessible – the crocodile was seen to be lurking. “I don’t know, I didn’t get a chance to look,” she said helplessly.
