Mrs. Paine. She said it is dark, and it is not very clean. She thought the courtyard was nice, a grass spot where June could play, fenced in. But there was very little ventilation. We immediately were aware there were a lot of cockroaches.
Mr. Jenner. Was she aware of this, and did she comment on that?
Mrs. Paine. I don't know as anything was said. He was pretty busy explaining. He was doing his best to get rid of them. But they didn't subside. I remember noticing that he was tender and vulnerable at that point, when she arrived.
Mr. Jenner. He was tender?
Mrs. Paine. Hoping for—particularly vulnerable, hoping for approval from her, which she didn't give. It wasn't a terribly nice apartment. And she had been disappointed, because when we first arrived she thought that the home we were going to was the apartment.
Mr. Jenner. She thought the Murrets' home?
Mrs. Paine. Yes. So when we came up to the Murrets' home, she said, "This is lovely, how pleased I am." So that she was in—disappointed by contrast with the apartment that she really had to live in.
Representative Ford. She expressed this?
Mrs. Paine. She expressed her disappointment; yes; and didn't meet his hopes to be pleased with it.
Mr. Dulles. As compared with their previous place of residence, how was the New Orleans apartment? It was bigger, I gather.