The MacRoss Legacy

Lily. Oh Lily.
She was living such a smooth life before the “Bad Thing”.
The Bad Thing is the only way she can refer to the total collapse of her family. All gone in a single burst of misfortune. Her father Gregory lost a game of cards and he was forced to sell Muckross Estate in a public auction to cover his debts. But then he realised that he had lost all of his belongings, house, cars, horses… most of all he had lost his self respect. Then he decided to commit suicide, being unable to cope with the tremendous shame he cast over his family.
Elspeth, his wife, couldn’t cope as well with the fall from their once noble status to the new one of being bankrupt and homeless. She decided to let herself die as well, but not before taking care of her beloved and only daughter: Lily.
Then Elspeth arranged to leave Lily her only belongins she managed to save from her husband’s disgraceful bet: a tiny plot of land in Rinn Fada, just a couple of miles from Muckross, and a thousand simoleons along with her wedding ring.
She wrote her a letter along with her last will:

“Lily, dear daughter of my heart, I know you will hate us for what we did to you. Your father lost all your inheritance, and his pride. He couldn’t do anything else than waht he did. And I must follow because I am weak. I really cannot imagine to restart form nothing. But you, Lily, are different. You are young, you are smart, you are beautiful, and you have a noble heart that me and your father lost many years ago. This is all that I can afford to leave you. I ask of you a single oath: please, you, and your heirs, take back Muckross Estate, because it is yours, it was yours before you were born, and it will be yours after your death. I wish you all the best, my dear Lily. Mum.”

Lily sighs while she reads her mother’s last words.
She doesn’t know how she can make it, but she’ll try with all her heart to start again from nothing.