Not to doubt my Domina - and I'll probably get a whipping later for questioning her in public_ but I thought we were outside the outer gate.  Is there an outer courtyard there as well, or is it outer gate leading to the outer courtyard and then doors from the courtyard leading into the villa etc... Or at least that is how I read the map.  So I envision us at the end of the road, outside the gate, waiting to be let into the outer courtyard.