Possible Clues:

• At fifty-one, therefore, by myself and melancholic
• Loosen me, being solitary
• Really wanting some friendly company
• Feeling unloved, left with my house after husband's gone
• Loose men terribly in need of company?
• Solitary person’s high honour featured in article abroad
• Fail to advance entirely, it’s said, without company
• Homesick, perhaps
• Left individual with a few in solitary
• Left one’s home in the East End abandoned