Mr. Liebeler. My question is: From the time that he went back out and she came in, how long were the two of them in the store together?
Mrs. Whitworth. I'd say 30 or 40 minutes, which is a long time.
Mr. Liebeler. Yes; and did she seem interested in any of the furniture—what did she do during this 30 or 40 minute period?
Mrs. Whitworth. Well, she walked back where we were and I had moved some beds to show her, pulling them around and showing them to her, and as well as I remember, I had a little red maple suite back there and I had some dark walnut suites and I was showing them used furniture because they looked like people that would buy used furniture and she stood there and looked and, like I say, the little girl was whining around and I would see him exchange glances at her, you know, kind of look up and down but I never did see her—I never did catch her but I thought they were exchanging glances at one another and she was not interested and she walked back up and around in the other part of the store and I stayed back there and I talked to him.
Mr. Liebeler. Did you have the feeling that there was any hostility between these two people that they weren't getting along too well?
Mrs. Whitworth. Well, she just didn't say anything. She wasn't interested in what he was looking at, didn't look to be, you know, and if they were—well—I just don't know, or I would say that there was any misunderstanding—there wasn't any smiles and there wasn't any jokes and neither one of them exchanged smiles. It wouldn't be like if I was going out shopping and my husband was going to buy something for me. I believe I would be more pleasant, but you know, I guess she just didn't know what he was talking about, but we were looking at furniture and I believe he went back to the car and told her to get out.
Mr. Liebeler. She just didn't seem to be very interested in that furniture?
Mrs. Whitworth. No; she didn't.
Mr. Liebeler. Have you ever had any other occasion in the entire time you have been running a furniture store, when a man and a wife came in and spent 30 or 40 minutes looking at furniture in a store and they never exchanged one single word between each other?
Mrs. Whitworth. No; not one single word.