Mr. De Mohrenschildt. Yes, yes.
Mr. Jenner. Were there occasions when you knew them in which Marina would correct his grammar and there would be an altercation between them or something?
Mr. De Mohrenschildt. Oh, yes; there was bickering all the time. There was bickering all the time. I don't remember whether it was especially on the point of grammar, but there was bickering between them all the time.
But as I said before, the bickering was mainly because Marina smoked and he didn't approve of it, that she liked to drink and he did not approve of it. I think she liked to put the makeup on and he didn't let her use the makeup. My wife will explain a little bit more in detail what was going on between them, you see, because she was a confidante of Marina's, you see. I was not.
Mr. Jenner. Would you elaborate, please?
Mr. De Mohrenschildt. Well, my wife being a woman was interested in a woman's problems, you see, Marina's, in the baby and in her makeup, in the way she dressed and the way she behaved, you see. She tried to correct her manners, correct, teach her how to be a human being, you see, which Marina did not know very well. She was doing her best to learn. She wanted to, but she really had a very poor background, you see.
Mr. Jenner. You made a comment that you just said your wife had confidence in Marina, but you didn't. What did you mean by that?
Mr. De Mohrenschildt. Confidence from what point of view?
Mr. Jenner. I don't know.
Mr. De Mohrenschildt. Yes; I mentioned that because I don't like a woman who bitches at her husband all the time, and she did, you know. She annoyed him. She bickered. She brought the worst out in him. And she told us after they would get a fight, you know, that he was fighting also. She would scratch him also.