The truth is, he was so far gone in loving her that he would have been charmed by her ways no matter what they might have been.
On the very morning after the above dialogue Garcia's train started for Rio Arriba, taking with it a girl who had been singled out for a marriage which she did not guess, or for a death whose horrors were beyond her wildest fears.
The train consisted of six long and heavy covered vehicles, not dissimilar in size, strength, and build to army wagons.

Garcia had thought that two would suffice; six wagons, with their mules, etc., were a small fortune: what if the Apaches should take them?
But Coronado had replied: "Nobody sends a train of two wagons; do you want to rouse suspicion ?" So there were six; and each had a driver and a muleteer, making twelve hired men thus far.

On horseback, there were six Mexicans, nominally cattle-drivers going to California, but really guards for the expedition--the most courageous bullies that could be picked up in Santa Fe, each armed with pistols and a rifle.

Finally, there were Coronado and his terrible henchman, Texas Smith, with their rifles and revolvers.

Old Garcia perspired with anguish as he looked over his caravan, and figured up the cost in his head.
Thurstane, wretched at heart, but with a cheering smile on his lips, came to bid the ladies farewell.
"What do you think of this ?" Aunt Maria called to him from her seat in one of the covered wagons.