After entering the dining room, the duke quickly arranged for our positions.
He took the seat at the head of the table since this was his manor, but to my surprise, I found that he put me at the other end of the table in the guest of honour seat.
Normally, a noble of my status would have been placed at one of the side seats even if I was the only guest that had been invited. After all, this was a matter of honour rather than courtesy.
The guest of honour seat was given to someone that would be at the same level as the duke, so it shouldn't be given to someone like me who was only a baron.
If a baron was put on the same level as a duke, then that would be inverting the noble hierarchy and looking down on the duke, so they shouldn't have done something like this.
But here we were…
At the same time, the duke's daughter Veronica was surprisingly seated right beside me.
