Chapter 322: Duh. I'm A Woman

"Is that Elle?" Tallulah asks me some time later.

She's sat next to me on a sofa, supposedly listening to Clara talking about her unborn baby but her eyes have drifted to where Jack is talking to a woman.

"Yeah. How did you guess?" I whisper back.

"The way he's looking at her," she replies. "It's pretty obvious he loves her."

I try to see what Tallulah sees. She's right of course, but strangely enough the only two people who need to be able to bloody well see it are completely oblivious.

Elle and Jack have no clue about Jack's feelings.

"She likes him back, you know."

Tallulah's words confuse me.

"How do you know?"

"Duh. I'm a woman," she says softly.

I give her a look that as good as demands more information.

She giggles slightly, turning her head to one side as she considers Jack and Elle.

"The look on her face for one thing," she begins. "Her body language. See the way she's leaning towards him... the way she's playing with her hair?"