No, it is.

[ He seems very firm on that subject, so clearly, this is a more serious conversation to him than most of the ones he's had here. ]

I am the Earl of Phantomhive. I earned that title, I did not have it automatically bequeathed to me upon the death of my father. I have no chance to be a boy, and I would have it no other way. I have work to do, and that is what I am working for in earnest here.