Mr. Jenner. Yes.
Mrs. Paine. Rather I would say it is a moodiness and a quality of enigma. Not the open-faced, glad-handed Texan or frontier American, but much more subtle. And I also do think that there is much more tendencies to—among Russian emigrés to suspect underlying motives, and things going on beneath the surface that are not evident on the face of the situation, a tendency among them more than among Americans.
Mr. Jenner. Do you find in Marina any of these tendencies you now relate?
Mrs. Paine. I find her moody. I would say she was contrary to this that I have described, of some Russian people, of a quality of suspecting things going on under the surface.
I found this quality rather in the head of the Russian school at Middlebury, who picked up my tape recorder and took it to his office one time when I had left it in the hall. He evidently thought I had bad use intended for it.
Mr. Jenner. Would you say that—give us your opinion as to Marina's sense of the truth, of telling the truth, having a feeling of the truth?
Mrs. Paine. That is difficult to say, because what questions I have about her telling of the truth have all arisen since I was with her personally.
Mr. Jenner. Yes; I wish your opinion now, as of this time.
Mrs. Paine. You wish my opinion now?
It is my opinion that this sense of privacy that I have described interferes with her being absolutely frank about the situation, and that she may, because of this lack of frankness, describe a situation in a way that is misleading, not directly false—but misleads the hearer. And this, I would say, not always in conscious design, but some of it happening quite without preplanned intent. I conclude that from the fact that I think she must have known that Lee had been to Mexico, judging from the materials I have already described were picked up by Mr. Odum and myself from the dresser drawer.