he just made a run at her with that kind of quiet , businesslike snarl they have when theyre not fooling around , they know theyve really got something , and she first looked like she was going to face him down , which a cat can usually do , but he was moving too fast for that to work , so then she thought better of it and tried to run down the hall , but he got hold of her and snapped her once like a dish towel and that was that .