The pair were able to exit the pool-room and skirt the edge of the mansion without incident.  There were few people about in the yard proper, and there were plenty of hedges, walls, trees, and statues to provide cover.  They could see the servant's entrance on the opposite side of the grounds from the main entrance, but it too was guarded.  A bored looking guard in a similar uniform to the one that had greeted them sat in a tower looking down on the alley below, while a second guard was leaning back against the arch of the entrance, the door shut and sealed beside him, as he chatted with a buxom woman who had placed a basket filled with jugs of milk next to her.<br/><br/>Nearby, towards the mansion, they could see an open door into a kitchen that bustled with activity, and an even larger set of open doors that lead down to a cellar.  There were piles of wooden boxes stuffed with straw around the cellar door, all filled with various bottles, jugs, and cured meats.  It looked like they had emptied the cellar, perhaps because of the tunnel that had been mentioned to them.