There's a big potluck at my work. I'm not sure what to eat, since I'm on a diet, but I just take one thing at a time, and my plate is full. It's ok, I can count it all (because that's what you do on this diet).

Then, I'm not sure where to sit, or with whom. Everybody makes me feel awkward. At a table toward the corner, is somebody with whom I am comfortable, I think M. Dakins. He can talk without much prompting. He's with somebody unfamiliar, but I go over and settle in at his table.

But then I set my plate somewhere, and misplaced it. Where did it go?