unfortunately , her opportunity to do so would prove to be short-lived , for , three years later , the family was forced to flee their estate , with the sudden uprising of the lower class , who sought to make an example of those members of the elite that had lived in excess , while they had lived amid filth and pestilence ( in fact , some of the rioters had even been old public house cronies of durgas father , who , in spite of their once close association with this petty villain , knew not of even the existence of his now 19-year-old daughter ) .