Mr. LIEBELER. Lee was?
Miss MURRET. And I was sitting on the steps with them, and it was only
an hour and a half.
Mr. LIEBELER. So you were not able to talk to Marina?
Miss MURRET. I said a little bit, but nothing--I mean, you couldn't
really talk, and you would just exhaust yourself with petty things, you
know, word for word.
Mr. LIEBELER. How did this crabbing expedition come to pass in the
first place? Did Lee call you and ask you to take him, or----
Miss MURRET. No; I think that they were over there and he just said,
I don't know, maybe just that they were going to the lake. I don't
remember. And then they asked me, stopped and asked me if I wanted
to----
Mr. LIEBELER. But when this started out, Lee and Marina were over at
your house on French? And Marina and Lee left from there and went on
this expedition?
Miss MURRET. Yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you form an impression as to how Marina and Lee got
along with each other?
Miss MURRET. Well, as I am saying, at first, I had no idea, when he
first came out, but then after I met them together, and then since the
assassination, of course, you know, how most of my thoughts are running
back because that happened, but after that time, I am saying that some
statements came out that he was very strict with her--I don't know. You
don't know in anybody else's house, I guess, but from all indications
they were perfectly happy. He was very devoted to Marina. He seemed to
love his child very much. And as I say, I am saying that he was very
well-mannered, he really was. And I mean if any other girl sat down,
he pulled the chair out, and the car door was opened to let her in
and out, and he does that for everybody. And, I don't know, she just
seemed to be perfectly happy, and that is when I really thought that
my imagination had just run away with me in the beginning, and that
probably I--and he seemed to--I don't know, but they just seemed to
be very family conscious and devoted. In fact, they were a real cute
couple.
Mr. LIEBELER. There wasn't anything about that that struck you as
peculiar or out of the ordinary?
Miss MURRET. No.
Mr. LIEBELER. You never heard of them having any marital difficulties
of any kind while they were here?
Miss MURRET. Only what I read.
Mr. LIEBELER. Only what you read in the paper after the assassination?
Miss MURRET. Yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. When Marina mentioned to you that Lee didn't want her to
smoke, did you detect any resentment on Marina's part over that?
Miss MURRET. No; not at all. It was just that a lot of husbands don't
want their wives to smoke, for that matter. I mean you can't--I
couldn't really type her either, with the language barrier, but I mean
she seemed to be very nice to older people. She also, when they did
eat there, she immediately went to do the dishes, you know. You know,
"Don't, Marina, I won't let you do anything like that," and when my
mother was around, she always saw that she had a seat. And, I mean, she
didn't seem to feel any resentment at all, although she said that she
had smoked before that.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did she indicate that she was satisfied with the apartment
or----
Miss MURRET. She didn't like it.
Mr. LIEBELER. She didn't like the apartment?