"It's still important to that side of the pond because it's tea," now she was kind of making fun of what she considered her own people though she hadn't been born in Europe but she had UK citizenship because of her father. So it counted.
"Oh yeah, you can add sugar of course. Cream and/or honey too," she reached out, patting his knee lightly... And then realizing that was kind of an odd place to be patting him so she jerked her hand away very quickly.