You gotta be quick about this though. First time around it worked for me, and then I can't get back again, not even with shadows or anything. There's a bard right outside, and if you tell him to sing a song, the mage comes out to listen, and after the bard finishes he stays out. You can go round the back and loot everything, but you've got one chance only this way, I don't know any other way. And don't let him see you from the door, he'll call you back.
