“Some day we’ll want to use them again.”
“Use them, then; I don’t object.”
“But you’ll want them clean.”
“They were clean enough just now, weren’t they? You put some potato on the plate on which I’d been eating potato and fish, didn’t you? I didn’t find any fault, did I?”
“I didn’t notice any very vociferous complaint.”
“Of course you didn’t. Well, if a plate is clean enough to keep on eating from, I don’t see any use in bothering with it.”
“You mean that dishes that are clean enough to stop eating on are clean enough to begin with again?” laughed Dan.
“You’ve struck the nail on the head the first time.”
“That may do in New York. It won’t do here.”
“It’s just a fad, that’s all,” asserted Walter. “It’s a fashion and nothing more.”