Possible Clues:

• Complete quiet
• Hush nieces playing round lake
• Lack of communication
• Something that may be golden or broken
• Don's OK with shelter, assuming no charge for mum
• After entertaining the French, not a peep
• Library volume?
• Mum about 100, sort of senile!
• Poles outside French island church still
• Put an end to Spooner’s freedom