She had the inhuman attribute of abandoning what she could not get and of waiting for what she could get. [...]. Very few people in the world could have known that Cathy did not want to be where she was and in the condition she was. She relaxed and waited for the change she knew must come some time. Cathy had the one quality required of a great and successful criminal: She trusted no one, confided in no one. Her self was an island.

East of Eden