" She was obsessed with the success of her maternal grooming: "Come, August, we shall reply to the king at once.Bannion leaves his wife (who has invited guests for dinner) and drives to Lagana""s stately, two-story palatial mansion.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.At Pinehurst, Jake and Robin were watching a movie on television,A Place in the Sun (1954).[It was the scene in which poor-boy Montgomery Clift was rowing out onto a lake, contemplating the murder of his pregnant girlfriend Shelley Winters.