The Palace Beautiful by L.T. Meade

Mrs. Dove had a great many lodgers -- she let rooms on each of her floors, and she called her lodgers by the name of the floor they occupied -- first floor, second floor, third floor came and went to 10, Eden Street. The girls were known as "the attics," and Jasmine felt very indignant at the name.

"It's almost as bad as being a tare," she said to Primrose. "Dear, dear! I never thought I should turn into an attic! What an unpleasant place London is! I begin to think Poppy is quite right in what she says of it."