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294 She walked past him, and heard him murmur to himself, "Child!" The word by no means lessened her feeling. Crayven followed, and on the walk back tried earnestly to make his peace. But it was long since Teresa had had a good opportunity of being unreasonable, and she seized this one instinctively, and with a sense of relief. And—besides—it was only on the surface that she was unreasonable. What Crayven had said was trifling enough, but the change in her feeling was not trifling. A delicate balance had been disturbed.