"Like a dream," said the driver of the sky car.
"It should," said Thomas, covering his ignorance with monosyllabic agreement.
"Handles well, too. I think we could stand a bit more positivity of control, though."
"I'll look into it."
"I wish you would. We've got the jump on the whole world with this. We'd like to keep it. But the thing doesn't answer to the wheel too solidly."
"Uh-huh."
"The chief engineer said, 'Jim, take that crate over to Lionel and see if he will beef up the control force a bit.' So here I am."
"O.K., Jim," said Thomas, offering a prayer for the name that had been given unwittingly. The engineer must have been a busy boy! "How are you going to get back?"
Jim looked up into the sky. "Jerry is following in the pilot model. He'll pick me up and we'll go on back thataway."
Jim nodded skyward, and Thomas looked at the growing speck that must have been the pilot model.