Indeed. Miss Zelda deserves a great deal of thanks. She works so hard to keep us all in good spirits and informed about what's going on. I don't know what we'd do without her.

[Mary chuckles and takes the offering.]

And what is this exactly? I've seen something of the like around here before, but it's not something I recognize from home.

[Ice cream isn't exactly a common delicacy in the Caribbean of the early 1700s.]