Possible Clues:

• In a bind?
• Tightly cinched
• Stayed, but is escorted out
• Wearing some Victorian garb
• Squeezed company group invested in wine
• Bodily restricted, being fixed by side of table, bound by string
• Restricted group in centre start to demonstrate
• Snow reported, novel business
• Could mainstays get Mother thus confined?
• Dressed like a Victorian woman