Mrs. PAINE. All the time I knew her or at least any references from her of the matter to their marriage left me with the impression that it was hopeful that though it was difficult they could work out their difficulties. Mr. JENNER. And that she was desirous of attempting to do so? Mrs. PAINE. She was desirous of attempting to do so though still leaving open the possibility that in time she would have to conclude that she couldn't. She by no means simply gave in to him on every point or let him walk on her, but that, I would say, is a healthy thing for the marriage rather than anything contributive to any fundamental difficulty in it. Mr. JENNER. Have you completed your answer? Senator COOPER. May I ask a question? Mr. JENNER. Yes. Senator COOPER. Did Marina ever indicate to you in any way whether or not she felt, after she came to the United States and saw Lee Oswald in his country in which he had been born and reared, that she found him unintelligent or a person of mean ability, small ability or poor background? Did she ever have any comment in any way on his being inferior? Mrs. PAINE. I don't recall her ever commenting in that way. Mr. JENNER. Was she disappointed in any way after he returned to the United States? Mrs. PAINE. I don't recall her ever saying that. I had heard Mrs. Ford express such an opinion. Mr. JENNER. That would be hearsay? Mrs. PAINE. That would be hearsay. Mr. JENNER. Did you know, are you familiar with the report that appeared in the Fort Worth Press on January 15, 1964, reporting that you had told Marvin Lane that Lee could not have taken the rifle from your garage and gone to practice without your knowledge? Do you recall that? Mrs. PAINE. I do. Mr. JENNER. Mark Lane. Mrs. PAINE. It is Mark but that perhaps was in the Fort Worth Press. I recall that. Mr. JENNER. Did you ever make that statement to a reporter for the Fort Worth Press? Mrs. PAINE. Yes, I did; with slight variation. It always came out a more definite statement in the press than I meant to make it. Mr. JENNER. What did you say to the reporter then? Mrs. PAINE. I said I did not see how he could have taken the gun from the garage without my knowing it. There were two weekends particularly in question which had been reported in the Press that someone had seen him at a firing range, one being the weekend of the 9th and 10th, and I was home virtually all of that weekend except Monday the 11th as I have already described. The other being the following weekend, and I didn't see how he could have--the weekend he was not out at my house, I didn't see how he could have come out, taken the gun, gone away without my knowledge, and if the gun had not been in that garage that weekend, I didn't see what the purpose of his coming out the 21st of November was in the situation. And this is what I told Mr. Tackett of the Fort Worth Press.