“…what about you? Did you ever play?”
Moaney (for it is he): (sighing) "…no, I was never allowed to go anywhere near any girls, let alone play netball with them! …and looking at those in the village who were eligible and of good breeding stock when I was young, I had to look much farther afield… (…memories of Welsh coal-mines and slag-heaps floating through his mind)
…ah, if only! (…just my idle thoughts, sorry!)