Possible Clues:

• Shut up! It's a stone's throw to Edward
• Miss first train in Clare going to Dublin, as shut up in private meeting
• Like idiomatic skeletons
• Shut up hard by Edward
• Like some skeletons?
• Shut up with Edward hard by
• Confined to a small space, as for intensive work
• Like some who haven't come out
• Cedes lot, being shut away
• End with Edward's secret