I wonder if Jerry wouldn't pick us up and take us over to the Hoover place right now.

I've a good mind to ask him.
Would you like it, Tilly ?" Would she?
Matilda's sparkling eyes proclaimed that it would give her infinite delight; and so Brother Lu, with the assurance that every ex-tramp possesses in abundance, stepped up to the man who was putting his tools away in the chest where they belonged.
Jerry made an involuntary gesture with his right hand.

He had been about to touch his cap respectfully, but caught himself just in time.
"Hello, Jerry!" sang out the breezy one, giving the chauffeur a hearty slap on the shoulder that must have somewhat astonished him; "you told me you'd be right glad to give my folks a little joy ride if the chance ever came along.

We're heading right now for the Hoover place, and would be obliged to you to give us a lift, because we'll have to walk all the way back; and brother-in-law Andrew here isn't a well man.

How about it, Jerry, old top ?" Jerry grinned as though enjoying the joke.
"Sure I can---Lu," he managed to say, though it evidently came a bit hard for him to be so familiar with his rich employer's first name.
"Just bundle in, and we'll take a round-about way there.