As much as anything is assured in the real world, yes. The captain has much more to lose than to gain, by betraying us -- grain is, if you have a ship, much easier to come by than what she wants.

She's getting far more than her effort's worth in return, but this is a starvation situation we're avoiding, and she knows it as well as we do.

[Pepper sounds fairly philosophical about this -- business is, after all, business. And she's been helping steer a very large corporate ship for some time now]