The Road (The Ten Commandments)

Bonthorn closed the gate.

It was a little white gate set deep in the dark recess of a very
old holly hedge, and the opening in which it swung was like a
tunnel cut through a city wall. Bonthorn paused in the shadow, and
with his back to the gate looked at something which appeared to
please him. His one very deep-blue eye filled with the light of a
smile.

He saw a big cherry tree in bloom and under it a carpet of vivid
grass, and on the grass Rollo, his brown Cairn, playing with a
small black kitten....