Good Intentions

We went for dinner in Paddington last Sunday on the way to visiting a friend in hospital; there was a couple at the next table. 'I've put Sebastian on the prayer list at church', I said, 'As he won't be anywhere else.'

A few minutes later I heard the young woman at the table next to us saying to her companion, 'We said we were going to go to church at Christmas, didn't we? Why didn't we in the end? We must go for Easter.'