- Thornhill's talkative in the car but gets no response from the men, even when he asks whether he's being kidnapped.
- He sees the name "Townsend" on the gate of the mansion they take him to and asks who Townsend is. No answer.
- The two men take him inside and tell him to wait there.
- He tries to escape but no luck.
- Eventually a man whom Thornhill assumes to be Townsend enters. He's pretty suave and classy himself.
- The man, whose name we later learn is in fact Phillip Vandamm, refuses to answer any of Thornhill's questions or to explain why he's brought Thornhill to the mansion.
- Instead the guy accuses him of playing "games" and just plain "play-acting." He just refuses to admit that he's George Kaplan.
- Thornhill says his name's Roger Thornhill, "and it's never been anything else," including George Kaplan, but the kidnapper's not convinced.
- A woman enters the library to inform the kidnapper that his dinner guests have arrived.
- Getting "down to business," the man asks Thornhill to tell him how much he knows "of our arrangements and how [he has] come by this information."
- Thornhill is totally confused. What's going on?
- When Thornhill's still uncooperative, the man delivers his first threat, saying if Thornhill doesn't come clean he may not survive the evening.
- The man says he knows that Kaplan—he's still convinced this is Thornhill's alias—has been checking into hotels in various cities: Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Boston, Detroit. He also knows that Kaplan's due in Chicago in two days, then after that in Rapid City, South Dakota.
- Thornhill says he still has no idea what the man's talking about. The man then leaves the library and tells his assistant, Leonard, to give Thornhill/Townsend a drink.
- Thornhill says no thanks—he'd prefer a ride back home.
- Leonard replies, "that's been arranged." Then, with the help of the two men who abducted Thornhill and brought him to the mansion, Leonard forces Thornhill to drink bourbon.