The Extras permit him through the gates - car and all, which they ... eventually offer to house temporarily at the stables. A lot of space has been freed up there by the lack of livestock, but Petra's forlorn carriages still stand there, unused.

From there he's escorted not into the study where the Countess had been for her address to the city but a comfortably appointed sitting room where she probably intended to be sitting down upon his arrival; she's actually pacing by the window, although she comes away from it when he's announced.