Sister Delaney was one of the medical staff who looked after Elsie Howard when she was hospitalised in 1973. Elsie had caught a train to London to visit her son Dennis. After returning to retrieve her handbag which she had left on a park bench, Elsie was knocked down by a taxi. She suffered a frontal fracture of the skull and severe concussion. Delaney and the younger Nurse Maclean enjoyed speculating about the identity of "sleeping beauty", who had been found without any form of identification.