Mr. Jenner. What did she say?
Mrs. Paine. She said she supposed most couples had at some time wondered about this. She wondered herself whether she loved him truly. She talked some of her few months of dating that she had in Minsk, and of living there.
Mr. Jenner. That is before her marriage to Lee Harvey?
Mrs. Paine. Yes. At some point, and I want to tell you this, whether it is appropriate or whether it happened later in October, I can't be certain, but I think in May she told me that she had written a letter to a previous boyfriend, and that this letter had come back because she had put insufficient postage on it, and Lee had found it at the door coming back through the mail, and had been very angry.
Mr. Jenner. Did she go beyond that?
Mrs. Paine. She did not. To tell me what was in the letter, you mean?
Mr. Jenner. I am not thinking so much within the letter. Did she go beyond stating that he was merely only angry? Was there any discussion about his having struck her?
Mrs. Paine. No; none. No; none. She never mentioned to me ever that Lee had struck her.
Mr. Jenner. And during all the visits you ever had with her, all the tete-a-tetes, her living with you on this occasion we now describe as 15½ days, and in the fall, was there any occasion when Marina Oswald related to you any abuse, physical abuse, by her husband, Lee Harvey Oswald, with respect to her?
Mrs. Paine. There was never any such occasion.