The Gated Road Author:Jean S. Macleod Jane Thornton had the weight of more than one grief in her heart the day she went to High Tor to break a piece of bad news to Adam Drummond. When she arrived, she found that her task was even harder than she imagined. The road to Adam's Cumberland farm was punctuated by gates, blocking the way to intruders, and they seemed like symbols of the ... more »barriers that he had put round his own heart to keep out love -- to keep out even sympathy and ordinary human warmth, it seemed.« less