He's not trying to be invasive, but oh, yes, he's paying attention, with all his senses, Force included. He relaxes a little, as he watches her, his own expression sliding to sympathetic unhappiness.

"You said you'd just left Coruscant. I know there was a lot of violence in the first few days of the Empire. You were...trying to get out?" he asks, a little more gently.

He doesn't realize she means actually there, as part of the Senate. But - her clothes looks nice. She's so clearly about to have a baby. And smart enough to know the Empire meant nothing good. Getting out of the Core would have been a wise thing to do.