The Chocolaterie:

"The bakery opened yesterday. But it isn't a bakery. When I awoke yesterday morning at six the wrapping was off, the awning and the shutters were in place and the blind was raised in the display window. What was an ordinary, rather drab old house like all the others around it has become a red-and-gold confection on a dazzling white ground. Red geraniums in the window boxes. Crepe-paper garlands twisted around the railings. And above the door a hand-lettered sign in black on oak: La Celeste Praline Chocolaterie Artisanale."

La Celeste Praline/Chocolaterie Maya vies for position as the centre of the village, sstanding opposite the church. The villages enter both to worship. But in the church they find only harsh words and austere rules, while in the Chocoalterie everything is warm and lucious and sensuous.