Oxenstierna advises a political marriage with the Prince:Lord Chancellor: They clamor for a Swedish marriage for your majesty.Outside her rented apartment in a crumbling section of town, Rocky met her teenaged son who was hanging out on the street, and offered the two of them a free meal at his restaurant some time in the future.I might become an adventuress.Tom: I can just see you starting for China on a twenty-six foot sail boat.Gerry: You""re thinking of an adventurer, dear.An adventuress never goes on anything under three hundred feet with a crew of eighty.Tom: Well, you just let me catch you on a 300-foot yacht or even a 200-foot yacht.Gerry: At least I wouldn""t have to worry about the rent.During dinner as they both become tipsy, Gerry suggests hat they""d be better off as brother and sister - another foreshadowing of a ploy that she will use to help benefit their welfare.His balding, 60-ish father-in-law Wade Gustafson (Harve Presnell) is in the living room watching college hockey on TV [the first of many characters in the film who find escapist entertainment on the tube], while waiting for dinner (a common occurrence).