Trouble begins, though, when Bloom meets Councillor Nannetti, the business manager for the Freeman's Journal. Nannetti is an Italian and, like Bloom, he is an outsider, but Nannetti has succeeded in making himself accepted by Dubliners and is a member of the Dublin city council. (In fact, the actual Nannetti — Joseph Patrick — served as mayor of Dublin in 1906 and 1907.) Nannetti agrees to print the paragraph about Keyes's establishment, but only with the condition that Keyes guarantees to run the advertisement for three months. Bloom explains that Keyes wants the design of the advertisement changed to a rebus of two crossed keys, a design that appeared in a Kilkenny paper (the Kilkenny People) and, furthermore, he will go to the National Library to track down this particular design. This journey will place Bloom in the library at the same time that Stephen is there in "Scylla and Charybdis."
Deciding to call Keyes instead of taking the chance of going to his place only to find that he is out, Bloom enters the office of the Evening Telegraph to use the phone. Professor MacHugh, Ned Lambert, and Simon Dedalus are there, and later (but before Bloom leaves for Dillon's Auction Rooms in Bachelor's Walk to find Keyes) J. J. O'Molloy, Myles Crawford, and Lenehan enter the room. Bloom is struck by the opening door when O'Molloy enters, and later he bumps into Lenehan after he finishes his phone call to Keyes; symbolically, there is no room for Bloom in the group. Lambert and Mr. Dedalus leave for a drink at a nearby pub, The Oval, and Bloom leaves to talk to Keyes. As he does so, newsboys mimic his manner of walking, and Lenehan, following their childish lead, does a mazurka to imitate the departing protagonist. After Bloom has left, Stephen and O'Madden Burke enter the office to join Crawford, O'Molloy, Lenehan and MacHugh.
