ben puts the room key down on a table, and the camera pans him over to a smaller desk containing the telephone and telephone books. he sits down at the desk, and reaches for the general telephone directory. he begins flipping through the pages. jo turns from the flowers and walks over to him. he pauses, takes out of his pocket the black notebook on which he wrote louis bernard's message. he tears out the page, hands the notebook to jo. ben pauses, notes the place on the page, and reaches for some notepaper and a pen from the desk. the others watch jo, puzzled at her strange performance. no one dares speak until she finds out what it means. too tired to say anything at first, ben drops into the first chair he comes to. then he looks up. ben studies the group trying to appraise in his mind what they have said.