Mrs. Paine. Yes.
Mr. Liebeler. Did Marina use it?
Mrs. Paine. Yes. If I may say—that I am disturbed by what she said. I was concerned all along in this arrangement that Lee not resent my being—my offering a place for Marina, and what she said would do a good deal to raise resentment in him, I would think.
Mr. Liebeler. Marina, of course, was aware of the fact that you did not want to conduct yourself in such a manner as to breed resentment on Oswald's part with respect to his relations with Marina?
Mrs. Paine. We never discussed it explicitly. I probably would have if my Russian had been better. She at one point said to him on a weekend when he came out that my Russian was improving while his was getting worse, and I was embarrassed to have her say this. I may have testified to this, and just pointed out that I was getting more practice than he at that time was, but my feeling was that this was a mistake on her part in terms of his feelings to say that.
Mr. Liebeler. Did she say that in front of him?
Mrs. Paine. Yes; that's why I spoke up immediately and said, "Well, you know a lot more vocabulary than I did."
Mr. Liebeler. Other witnesses have testified that Marina was not always entirely considerate of Oswald's feelings in the presence of others. Would you think that would be a fair statement?
Mrs. Paine. Well, I seldom saw them in the presence of others.
Mr. Liebeler. In the presence of others—I mean yourself.