Complex sentence: Afterward she confides in her spinster landlady (i.e., samples a same-sex affiliation), but the barrenness of this lifestyle, with its eerie stockpiles of unused goods cluttering every room, spooks Mary.
Split into simpler sentences: Afterward she confides in her spinster landlady (i.e., samples a same-sex affiliation). But the barrenness of this lifestyle, with its eerie stockpiles of unused goods cluttering every room, spooks Mary.