cat, that's so sad.
pen, ah, did she? So might she have been in the army without serving in a war? I am realising I know so little about the history of women in the army. I didn't realise it could be a career during peacetime until quite recently.
I am interested to see what they do with Sister Ursula. I do actually think she has a point in that you can see Nonnatus cannot have carried on the way they were (and the historical one didn't). I guess it fits with the story with Sheila, which ends with more safeguards in the workplace to prevent injury, that there would have been less emphasis on community informal solutions and more on rules laying down what could be provided.
It does seem as if they're going to make it more about personal tensions, though. And telling people not to arrange flowers makes me think she's not being especially rational!