It was true, the owed the lady a certain debt considering her benevolence towards the group. Perhaps they had only been spared a few coin, he'd already forgotten how much of the money Louis had taken from her to pay for the meal. A lapse in attention that could prove fatal in the future, he stopped his train of thought to lament that before continuing. Either way, it would have been smart to use only her money but also incredibly rude. "While the good captain is indeed magnanimous, the limits of what we can do to repay you will certainly equal what we've been given," He said, feeling the need to indicate that limits of 'we don't know how we could ever repay you.' Just in case. Whatever it was she wanted from them, it probably wasn't within their means. If it was cheap passage aboard their vessel, the joke was on her because agree all they must if she wanted to survive it she'd be chipping in somewhere: They were flat broke now, probably, hopefully not, and the ocean was a big place that you needed a lot of provisions to cross. One way or another, everyone on the vessel ended up carrying their weight, or [i]nobody[/i] made it.