Mr. Jenner. What did she say?
Mrs. Tobias. She said she was Russian.
Mr. Jenner. She said that in Russian?
Mrs. Tobias. No; she said that in English, but she said, "My husband said it was bad and my husband told me if I said I was Russian people would be mean to me."
Mr. Jenner. She made it known to you with her limited command of English—she said what you have now related?
Mrs. Tobias. Oh—yes; she said it. I understood her real well.
Mr. Jenner. You did?
Mrs. Tobias. And she said, "My husband thinks people will be mean to me," and I said, "Nobody will be mean to you," and I said, "You are always welcome to come into my house." I am always nice to the tenants, but I don't run back and forth, but I try to be nice to them. A lot of them do seem lonesome when they come in. She came in lots of afternoons and would just set this little girl down on the floor and she was 9 months old when they moved in there and she would crawl around over on the rug and she would stay in there sometimes an hour, and she did that lots of afternoons—just lots of afternoons she would come up.
Mr. Jenner. And during that—with all of this period of time, you had many opportunities to observe her?
Mrs. Tobias. Yes; and then she came in the evening and wanted to know if she could use the phone. She said, "I don't know where my husband is." She told me that.