CAN YOU EXCUSE US, PLEASE?

Can you excuse us, please?: translation

Could you excuse us, please? & Can you excuse us, please? & Would you excuse us, please? & Will you excuse us, please?

We must leave. I hope you will forgive us. (A polite way of announcing a departure.) •

Bill: Could you excuse us, please? We simply must rush off. Alice: So sorry you have to go. Come back when you can stay longer.