A few months later, Dad comes home in the middle of the night and makes everyone get up and pack. They are moving. They aren’t allowed to take any more than they need to survive so as to hurry them onto the road. However, Mom holds them up by digging and digging in the back yard, looking for the jar of cash she buried there. She had forgotten where she had buried it. Jeannette is disappointed to have forgotten Tinkerbelle, but Dad won’t go back. She also tries to keep Quixote, their cat, quiet so Dad won’t become angry, but cats hate to travel, and eventually, Dad grabs it by the scruff of the neck and throws it out the window. Jeannette bursts into tears while Mom tells her that she shouldn’t be so sentimental. Her explanation is that the
