"This is the basic question which doesn't leave me day or night. And again Lee has said to me that he doesn't love me. So you see we came to mistaken conclusions. It is hard for you and me to live without a return of our love interest gone. How would it all end?"
Had there been discussions between you and Marina Oswald on the subject of whether or not her husband had love for her, and in that area?
Mrs. Paine. What I particularly recall is what I mentioned yesterday, when he telephoned her and said he had found a job and wanted her to come——
Mr. Jenner. This was just before going to New Orleans?
Mrs. Paine. Just before going to New Orleans.
Mr. Jenner. In the spring?
Mrs. Paine. Right. She said "Papa loves us," as I have testified. She had wondered to me during the 2 weeks previous whether he did, whether she loved him. But was clearly elated by his call and gradually came to her own conclusions. Really, I had no ground upon which to make a conclusion.
Mr. Dulles. She was speaking in Russian then to you?
Mrs. Paine. Yes.
Mr. Jenner. Now, were you impressed that this paragraph, however, was not consistent with her immediate response at the time that telephone call had been made to her?