Allison says that she once took lodging at Mile End Road but after returning, "the expression of her face was sadder than before." She describes Mile End Road as a place filled with "drunkenness" and a "terrible" experience.

Place repeatedly referred to throughout the text. Mary took lodging near here.

This is the place where Mary Earles' aunt offered her to stay after the death of her father, but as she recounted to Vincint that the woman is, "very High Church, and lives at Bournemouth in one of those dreadful little gabled villas", she made it clear she wasn't interested in going. 

https://studio.covecollective.org/anthologies/engl-1102-11-30am/documents/the-story-of-a-modern-woman 

In chapter 3, the main character is now attending school in Germany.