Sinister House by Fred M. White — Read

It was many days before the unfortunate owner of number Seventeen Manton-street was able to give some account of her doings over a long period of years. For days she seemed to be almost at the point of death, a physical collapse due in part to the sordid life she had been leading and partly because she was suffering from voluntary starvation.

Then, under careful nursing and attention she began to mend and take interest in what was going on around her. And from the very first she appeared to be singularly attracted to the personality of Pamela Dacre.