He did not quite understand what was to be done with Catrina--how she was to be silenced.

She had found him out with such startling rapidity that he felt disposed to admit her right to dictate her own terms.

On a straight road this man was fearless and quick, but he had no taste or capacity for crooked ways.
Catrina walked on in silence.

She was not looking at the matter from his point of view at all.
"Of course," she said at length, "of course, Paul, I admire you for it immensely.

It is just like you to go and do the thing quietly and say nothing about it; but--oh, you must go away from here.