I won't tell them anything, my cousins the Beers are English, we visit them ever-so-often, flying over to England. My Mother's, Mother's--father was English with eyes as blue as a summer sky ....I had a boss from England, he is a lawyer on top of being English, and he would say sorry all the time but didn't mean it. I would step on my bosses foot and he would say "Sorry"
So I would step on this foot for the fun of it....and laugh when he said sorry. I wonder if he ever figured out that I was teasing him...I was his paralegal for over 5 years too...lololol
Hehe, it's quite the British thing to apologise in situations like that. I would probably say sorry if a lass stood on my foot!