Steve, I can see you doing that.
When I took my bride 31 years ago, I mentioned that we were not having any daughters. She chuckled and subsequently we had two sons.
She asked me why we were not having daughters, I replied I did not want to live out my my year in federal prison for murder. To which she chuckled again and propogated the conversation by asking me to go into details.
As it was, I simply said that when my daughter came to me with tears running down her cheeks and sobbing profusly said, "Daddy...<sob> Daddy... Freddie left me." I would have to handle the matter in the cleanest way I could at the time.