She didn't. She slept. I actually had to waken her up. She did the same thing—she stayed in our daughter's home overnight. Because when her teeth were pulled, she was not in condition to go back. She was the same way—very lazy. And I just couldn't understand it—a young person. Maybe she was ill. We talked about it—maybe we have just too much energy. For a young girl to sleep late, and not to be active.
The proof of her laziness is that she didn't do much about learning English, in spite I gave her the records, and we gave her one of our little phonographs. I had beautiful records to learn English—I bought them in New York when I arrived.
Mr. Jenner. Is it that she was lazy that she didn't pursue learning English, or did Oswald object to her learning English?
Mrs. De Mohrenschildt. According to her Oswald objected, and he also told us himself that he wants to speak with her in Russian, because he doesn't want to forget Russian.
But then we got onto Oswald.
Mr. Jenner. Tell me about it now.
Mrs. De Mohrenschildt. He didn't want to forget his Russian. That was his reason—not to let his wife learn English—because she was the only person he could speak Russian to.
Mr. Jenner. He could still speak Russian to her, even though she learned English, couldn't he?
Mrs. De Mohrenschildt. Of course, that is what we told him. We said, "You are crippling her, she has to learn English. She cannot live in this country without the language, she cannot do anything."
He was strange in many, many ways.