Mr. LIEBELER. What did she tell you about her life in Leningrad, just
briefly, if you will summarize it for us.
Mrs. FORD. Well, really, I don't know--the only thing I knew was about
some of the things she was telling me about friends she had there, she
had a friend that was a medical student and she told me she talked a
lot on the telephone to him, and she was rather, I thought that is
where I made the impression to me, it made an impression to me she was
immature, she liked to talk to the man for a long time in the evening
but she was afraid to be seen with him in the streets, he was ugly, so
I thought it was rather strange, you know, and then----
Mr. LIEBELER. Did she tell you who she was living with in Leningrad?
Mrs. FORD. Yes; she was living with her stepfather, that is what I
remember, living with a stepfather she was telling me.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did she tell you about her relations with her stepfather?
Mrs. FORD. Yes; she did. She didn't like him and I think he doesn't
like her, either; they never did.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did she tell you any reasons why she did not like him?
Mrs. FORD. She was telling me a lot of times, she was telling me about
her mother, the mother didn't want to show affection to Marina or
something like that because the father was jealous of that affection,
and I think he did some sort of a cruel thing to her once that she
doesn't--she still remembers as being very cruel, something of accusing
her of taking some family silver and selling it while she knows that
he had pawned the silver for buying liquor, because it showed up, she
couldn't explain it to her aunt and it just made her feel very bad at
that time.