Oh, she'd gotten the Shipman reference ... but she'd met Shipman once, or at least a version of him, and had decided to simply ignore it.

"Oh, none of the gents have come by to say hello? Sorry to disappoint, but there's a fair share of people of the male persuasion here. It's usually the girls who try to set the new arrivals to rights, for some reason. I don't suppose you've been visited yet by a Miss Pollard?"