7/7/7 Under the Christmas Tree

There's a game where one posts the seventh line of the seventh page of the seventh chapter of a WIP.
In Under the Christmas Tree, the seventh chapter has eight pages, but the seventh line was in the middle of a sentence. Therefore, here's the seventh sentence of that seventh page of the seventh chapter. "Ancel de Libre".

Ancel is having problems with his mount, the kelpie mare Blessed. He lured her with gingerbread, and Suzette, watching, is interested.

Until recently, her great uncle had been chief confectioner at the castle, but this didn’t smell the same as the gingerbread he made.