Summary

Chapter seven begins on Christmas Eve with the Calcet children excited for the house on wheels. Tinka tries to talk them into driving to Provence in the spring to meet them at the shrine of Saint Sara. Tinka explains the story of Saint Sara being a handmaiden to Saint Mary Jacobe and Saint Mary Salome after the Crucifixion. The gypsies make a pilgrimage to Saint Sara’s church because she was a gypsy. Armand wants to distract the children from talking about the house and asks if they want to go to a Christmas Eve party under the Tournelle Bridge. There will be singing, and sauerkraut and wieners to eat. Suzy wants Tinka to come along, but she explains that the gypsies have their own party. Nikki offers to drive them to the party because he needs to stop at the Jardin des...