Blooper in 'IT'

[Mrs. Todd]

I'm new, and posted this in General Questions - guess it should have been done here...

On Page 542 (Hardcover edition of 'IT', published in 1986), there is a blooper, as far as I can tell. Ben Hanscom has JUST MET this woman, and has not provided any credentials, is not wearing a nametag, or anything else. Yet, after a few questions, she says "Is this a Joke, Mr. Hanscom?"... HOW DID SHE KNOW HIS NAME? My only assumption is that she is 'IT'... but nothing in the story suggests this. Anybody else have any thoughts on this? Is this a legitimate blooper the King has made?

[ozman]

Maybe she's telephathic

[ChristineB]

Wow, that looks like a bonifide blooper to me.

Of course, she could be pennywise, or the children's librarian could have called up and told her the guys name that was coming from the children's library, or we are to assume he had given her is name when he first walked up but we were privy to that converstation... All musing, but looks like a blooper to me.