Elephant Walk: Robert Standish

The Elephant People will not like it! The gloomy prophesy was uttered by the natives when the great teak mansion was built across the elephant trail by Tom Carey. It was a symbol of affluence and power throughout Ceylon, standing in several thousand acres of growing tea, it boasted twenty-eight bedrooms, a concert grand piano, exquisite crystal, linen and china. In time, Tom's son becomes the master - bluff, hearty George - and he courts and marries Ruth Lakin, some years his junior and takes her to Ceylon.When George breaks his leg Ruth is thrown into close contact with his assistant, Geoffrey Wilding. She must not only battle her attraction to him, but George's heavy drinking and the ongoing battle with Appuhamy, the chief servant who only knows one way of life - the old, wasteful and extravagant way. But elephants have long memories and they will take their revenge...https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/dvd-elephant-walk-elizabeth-taylor-dana-andrews-peter-finch/