Lillian is summoned home because her engagement to Justin is less than a month away. She says she has broken off the engagement, and family warns canceling will sever Ford–Lowell business ties and cost her the house Grandma left her. They propose giving the engagement to Lynn. Lillian rejects this, calls the inheritance a weapon, and refuses the family's 'happy family' act. Grandma comforts her and promises the house, but when the home is used as leverage Lillian says, 'then I don't want it anymore,' and tells them to let the courtyard return to dust, leaving engagement and inheritance unresolved.