He has to be kidding, but she doesn't know nearly enough about him to make that kind of deduction. Come to think of it—

"I have not seen your face around here before," Beatrix begins. Regardless of whatever may be going on in her personal life, she does make it her business to have a rough idea of the people who are around and their general behaviourism. Comes with that unspoken territory of wanting to protect others she knows.

"Have you only recently arrived to Reverein?"