Both shots are accompanied by eerie brass music building to a slow haunting crescendo. The mansion dissolves into a close-up of Susan's face and hand over a jigsaw puzzle.

             "What are you doing?" Kanes voice echo's as if in a deep cavern. The camera pulls back to the right, still on Susan as she reacts by looking left off screen. The scene cuts to a deep focus shot of Kane walking through a fifteen-foot archway, half-lit/half in shadows. Kane tiny in the background under the archway, is dwarfed by the giant statues in the foreground, middle-ground and background as well. "Jigsaw puzzles?" Kane answers his own question with the same deep echoing voice. The sequence cuts back to Susan sitting at the tabled jigsaw puzzle, still looking offscreen. She drops a piece of the puzzle, sighs then props her head in hand seemingly in despair.

             "Charlie? What time is it?" The shot reverses to Kane approaching. He is almost entirely shadowed in darkness.

             "Eleven thirty." Kane replies. Still walking, Kane turns to his left. The camera pans right, following him.

             "In New York?" Susan asks.

             "Hmm.?" Kane asks not hearing.

             "What time is it in New York?" she asks impatiently.

             "Eleven thirty," he repeats. Kane continues across the room still engulfed in darkness. As the camera pans right, more of the room's immense grandeur is revealed. A huge staircase leading to a large second story balcony, more giant statues and the grandest of fireplaces fill the palatial hall. Kane and Susan continue their conversation as Kane stops beside Susan seated in front of the fireplace. Susan's voice takes on a sarcastic then pleading tone as she tells Kane she is bored, then begs him for a trip to New York to have some fun. Kane walks to the fire place, turns to face outward in a stance of stolid resolve.

             "Our home is here Susan. I don't care to visit New York.".

             This sequence is highly symbolic and significant to the film's narrative. The exterior establishing shot is dark and gloomy.