"Here on the island he'd be safe enough, even in Cairo or Luxor as well. No one would want to get in trouble for harming a random English child, and they wouldn't know or care about the distinction between English and Americans." Not that the designation truly applied to the children born on the island, they had no country to call their own.
She allowed herself a wry smile as she remembered her childhood. "I managed to find my way into trouble, but my mother told me once that as a child I tended to believe anything permissible unless explicitly forbidden."