Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London

"What's the good?"

"Cold feet," she jeered, but with a smiling face. "All you have
to do is ask him. All he can do is say no. And what if he does?
You faced the Chicago Terror twenty rounds without flinching."

"Aw, but it's different," he demurred, then dropped to the ground
inside the fence. "Two to one the old geezer turns me down."

"No, he won't. Just tell him you want to learn, and ask him if
he'll let you drive around a few times. Tell him it won't cost
him anything."