Her life seemed full of obstacles

Sally Gaskell had become a nurse when the man she loved married her half sister, Jeannie. When Jeannie was injured falling from a hayloft, Sally had serious misgivings about returning home to care for her.

All the same, Sally enjoyed seeing her beloved Cumberland again and visiting Skidda, the farm she had inherited. However, she found the tenant who rented the place, Ross More, as stony as the land he worked.