It's much too late to prevent a torrent of questions, it just means what the questions are are going to be on a different path. It's not enough to stop Stephanie from asking, after all. Especially with a question like that

"Then what do we get to blame?" The fact that he's looking her over doesn't escape her either, not when he's asking a strange question like that. "And what do you mean, it depends? Why are you asking what the last thing I remember is? Does it matter?"