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But by-and-by Nancy, in her attic, became portentously worse, the supposed tumor having indeed given way to the blister, but only wandered to another region with angrier pain. The staymaker's wife went to fetch Lydgate, and he continued for a fortnight to attend Nancy in her own home, until under his treatment she got quite well and went to work again.
But he had not wasted his time, though he was more than metaphorically threadbare, and his waist would have made a sensation at a staymaker's.
No sooner does the carriage turn out, all complete, than she turns into it, all complete, and gives the word 'To Lady Tippins's. That charmer dwells over a staymaker's in the Belgravian Borders, with a life-size model in the window on the ground floor of a distinguished beauty in a blue petticoat, stay-lace in hand, looking over her shoulder at the town in innocent surprise.
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