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[8] Eve Casson is an artist with four children, each of whom she named after different colors: Cadmium (“Caddy”), Saffron (“Saffy”), Indigo, and Rose.

Rose starts school (a year late according to the health visitor) and draws her first picture, which her teacher pastes to the wall.

Rose is very upset and persuades Indigo to steal her picture and Caddy to draw an identical one to go up on the wall instead.

After the will is read, Bill heads back down to London and while running after him, Saffron meets Sarah, a girl who lives in the same road as her who uses a wheelchair.

Caddy has another lesson, meanwhile Saffron goes round to Sarah's house and meets her mother, Mrs Warbeck, the headmistress of the private school.

Caddy passes her written driving test and Saffron heads off to Siena with Sarah's family.

Caddy is still revising to beat Michael's girlfriend, Rose is doing her art and Indigo is conquering more fears of his.

When they arrive in Wales, they find barbed wire around Caddy's house with a large 'Keep Out' sign plastered on.

But, they climb over and find Indigo's wrecked car with a chest in the back, nailed tightly shut.