Mrs. Oswald. No. We had enough.
Mr. Rankin. You were not complaining about the way you were living?
Mrs. Oswald. No. I think that my friends had thought, and it was also written in the newspapers that we lived poorly because for Americans $200 appears to be very little. But I have never lived in any very luxurious way and, therefore, for me this was quite sufficient. Some of the others would say, "well here, you don't have a car or don't have this or that." But for me it was sufficient. Sometimes Lee would tell me I was just like my friends, that I wanted to have that which they had. That I preferred them to him because they give me more, but that is not true.
Mr. Rankin. Did you understand when he suggested you return to Russia that he was proposing to break up your marriage?
Mrs. Oswald. I told him that I would go to Russia if he would give me a divorce, but he did not want to give me a divorce.
Mr. Rankin. Did he say why?
Mrs. Oswald. He said that if he were to give me a divorce that that would break everything between us, which he didn't want. That he wanted to keep me as his wife, but I told him that if he wants to remain in the United States I want to be free in Russia.
Mr. Rankin. During this period did he appear to be more excited and nervous?
Mrs. Oswald. Not particularly, but the later time he was more excited and more nervous but it was quite a contrast between the way he was in Russia.
Mr. Rankin. By the later time that you just referred to what do you mean? Can you give us some approximate date?