Are you nobility then? I do not mean to offend; I am far from home and other customs are strange.

[Aerich hates asking, because back home he was good at figuring out exactly how anyone related to the politics via his own education and how they were presenting themselves; perhaps not as good as he was in his youth, as political upheaval scrambled everything. Certainly she acted as if others should react. It would be easier to judge looking at the people round her, but they were both in a foreign land.]