Is this bold part indirect speech or a third conditional?

The kindly man had told her that they would have taken her eyes from her anyway, to help her to learn to use her other senses, but not for half a year.

Context: the girl was now blind because the kindly man offered a drink to her to make her blind. The girl had drunk the drinks many times, one drink per day. The first time she drank he drink she didn’t know what his intention was. But she was willing to drink that since then because she knew it was a kind of training for her to learn to use other senses. And the kindly man told her this before she went blind from the drink.

Is this bold part indirect speech, which goes like:

The kindly man has told her, "We will have taken your eyes from you anyway, to help you to learn to use you other senses, by the end of a year, but not for half a year."--->The kindly man had told her that they would have taken her eyes from her anyway, to help her to learn to use her other senses, but not for half a year.

Or is the bold part a third conditional?

Thank you.