Sentence:  Without looking up, she asked: "Is your name <WSD>Mandy</WSD> or Amanda Price?" / "<WSD>Mandy</WSD>, Miss Etienne." In other circumstances <WSD>Mandy</WSD> would have pointed out that if her name were Amanda the CV would have said so. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (diminutive=Amanda). Popular as a formal given name in the UK in the 1960s and 1970s.