she went down the hallway to the back door , out into the stable yard and into the shed that she claimed as her own , where she fixed and made clocks of all types , just like her father had done in the farmhouse that they had once lived in together . an ill-fed , down-on-its-luck mutt . i finished , hoping that he did n't take that as an insult . `` glad my honeymoon came at a good time for us all . all dreadful dark places were connected by the nature of darkness itself . 