Note: A speculative story: the three godmothers are actually magical as well as having a mundane existence. An unpublished story from manuscript, probably written in the 1950s.

Synopsis: At the christening of her first child, which is to take place on Christmas eve, a new mother realizes that she's promised friends they would be a godmother about 15 times over the years. She decides to leave it up to Fate which promises she keeps, and draws three names from a hat. One of them is someone she doesn't really want to see again.