Possible Clues:

• Firm finds you and I in bed and breakfast getting by with dusty type
• Like Miss Havisham and her home in Great Expectations
• Gossamer — transparent
• Covered in spun threads?
• Old and dusty
• Very fine British swimmer, outwardly modest
• Like an unswept corner
• Like attics in long-abandoned houses
• Front (not middle) to drop, with modest coat finely spun
• Dusty type coy about a follower if editor dumped from 9 across