She didn't understand why he was acting so strangely by avoiding all contact with her. It wasn't as if what she said was false in any way. She spoke nothing but the truth. The incident with the stairs was ten years ago. Yes, it was awful, but bringing it up again shouldn't have caused him so much grief. They lived in a world filled with hard truths. Why was Antonin behaving like a petulant child who was scolded for something he knew he did wrong?