That confused Byakuya. "You were nobility." That meant she didn't have to go without, unless she was so poor that they had to.

Which didn't make any sense. He'd seen poor nobility like that, and they always had coarser manners than the truly genteel. He never went without and his people were well taken care of. The clan took care of its own.

He tried not to think of Kouga. That had been an aberration. That had been handled.