The Second Episode of 'Call The Midwife' Season 12 Is All About Marmalade, Love, & Family
As Call The Midwife rounds into its second episode, it's May 1968 and Whitsuntide (Pentecost) is here. Nurse Shelagh is pulling together Nonnatus’s celebration, with maypole dancing, refreshments, and a raffle. Sister Monica Joan gives her the entire cache of marmalade Sister Veronica brought as a gift for the house. Shelagh then discovers their maypole dance instructor had emergency surgery, so she rounds up volunteers — the nearest nuns, Dr. Turner, and Miss Higgins — and sets to work teaching them the steps. It’s a disaster, not one of them seems to take it seriously, not even Sister Monica Joan, cast as the maypole and only has to stand still.
Lucille: I have given the Holy Spirit every chance. I have given Him the chance to make me feel welcome in this country. I have given Him the chance to put a child inside my body. I have given Him opportunity after opportunity and either He has failed me or I have failed in His grace.
After a rocky start at Nonnatus, Sister Veronica, is now an asset to the practice and the order. Despite their initial conflict, she has gained Sister Julienne’s trust and friendship, and is bursting with ideas. Her latest project is a breastfeeding class for pregnant women, of which Sister Julienne thoroughly approves. Afterward, Nurse Shelagh meets first-time expectant mum Lilian Reynolds (Lydia Larson) who asks her about a painful rash on her breast and chats happily about her colorful past as a dancer, and plans for a home delivery. Dr. Turner gets her into a specialist, Mr. Sawyer (Richard Brimblecombe), at the hospital for a mammogram and biopsy.
