An older Jenny reflects on how she missed the Nonnatus community during the first Christmas after she left. In 1959, Cynthia is invited to join the order as a postulant and Chummy is offered the position of matron. In other events, rehearsals for the Sunday school's Christmas concert interfere with the nuns and nurses; two unmarried patients are sent to a home for pregnant women; and Dr. Turner cares for a destitute older couple.