"People don't just get into a fight over nothing with strangers," Meredith says, stumbling a little as she moves back toward him. "You are hurt and you could have been hurt worse." Maybe in the grand scheme of things, it is nothing, but that doesn't make it any less troubling that he could do this or just expect her to brush it off or that he could have been badly injured and not have a reason for it. She's wound up enough over the lingering idea of losing him that she can't deal with this one, stepping back again without trying to pull free yet.