Mrs. Paine. This was early July when I read this letter more carefully and I was shocked that I hadn't noticed this. That my poor Russian made a scanning of the letter not adequate to picking that up, and I wrote her immediately apologizing for my bad understanding, and I don't have that letter, but I have three which followed it, and——
Mr. Jenner. Excuse me. Do you have a draft, have you produced for the Commission your immediate preceding draft of that letter?
Mrs. Paine. I have no rough draft of my first letter explaining my shock and my worry at this statement of hers.
Mr. Jenner. I see.
Mrs. Paine. But I have rough drafts of three letters I wrote subsequently.
Mr. Jenner. Have you ever seen at any time a copy or the original of the letter that you wrote, a draft of which you do not have?
Mrs. Paine. No; I haven't.
Mr. Jenner. Would you please relate to the Commission your present recollection of the substance and content of that letter?
Mrs. Paine. Much what I have said. That I apologized that my poor Russian didn't see this immediately and I inquired after her what she was doing, and asked to hear from her.
Mr. Jenner. You say, that sentence when you finally did read it rather shocked you. Would you rather—would you elaborate on that statement to the Commission? Why did that shock you?