She shut the door. At once he became
extremely depressed. It all seemed useless-going on being in
love; going on quarrelling; going on making it up, and he
wandered off alone, among outhouses, stables, looking at the horses.
(The place was quite a humble one; the Parrys were never very well
off; but there were always grooms and stable-boys about-Clarissa
loved riding-and an old coachman- what was his name? -- an old nurse,
old Moody, old Goody, some such name they called her, whom one was
taken to visit in a little room with lots of photographs, lots of
bird-cages.)