Give us your best recollection.
Mrs. Paine. My best recollection is that she did most of the talking because she could. My Russian was bad enough that if she talked I was happy.
Mr. Jenner. Did you feel any embarrassment because you were——
Mrs. Paine. Oh, a terrible embarrassment.
Mrs. Paine. It is a terrible impediment to talking and to friendship.
Mr. Jenner. I wish you would elaborate on that because I am sure the members of the Commission would like to have your mental reaction to what you thought was your limited command of the Russian language and whether it interfered with communication between you.
Mrs. Paine. It interfered very markedly.
Mr. Jenner. Would you elaborate?
Mrs. Paine. I could think of many more things to say than I could think of the words to use in order to say it in Russian. I want to keep jumping ahead to illustrate this. But just it was very difficult for me to communicate.