“Her face was whiter than snow, and her heart was throbbing through her stays.”
““Listen! I see it all — down, down even to the stays! Such stays! Six-eight a pair, Polly, with red flannel — or list is it? — that they put into the tops of those fearful things. I can draw you a pic”
“Her throat was contracted, her breasts strove against the enlacement of her stays, she was about to weep.”