You'd hoped to find the Count at home; your original plan was to ask him for an advance on the money you expect to earn on your estate in a month or two. But according to the local population, the Count hasn't been home in months, and Marie, who was in residence until recently, has vanished as well. "No one around the big house now," says one of the peasant women tersely. "Even turned off the cook, they did."
But you need the money at once; if you return to Paris without it, your creditors are unlikely to be forgiving. So you walked over the fields anyway, and got in through the gap in the kitchen garden wall. You will just have to find what you can.
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This game seems rather bugged. Attempting to pour water from the teapot or any other receptacle (while the hole is blocked) and placing any other item in the sink produces an Inform Run-time error: "Liquid_3 (object number x) has no property rec_name to read."