K: Will you please give an account, as carefully as possible, of what happened.
M: Say, what the hell are you doing? Is this some kind of private Kinsey Report?
K: I'm sorry. I want to remind you of what I said at the beginning of our conversation. This can be important.
(Pause)
K: Are you having difficulty remembering?
M: God, no.
(Pause)
M: It feels strange to sit here and talk about a person who hasn't done any harm and who is dead anyway.
K: I understand your feelings. If I keep on insisting it's only because we need your help.
M: Okay, ask.
K: You came into the apartment together. What happened?
M: She took off her shoes.
K: And then?
M: We kissed.
K: And then?
M: She went into the bedroom.
K: And you?
M: I followed her. Do you want the details?
K: Yes.
M: She undressed and lay down.
K: On the bed?
M: No,
K: Was she totally undressed?
M: Yes.
K: Did she seem shy?
M: Not at all.
K: Did she turn out the lights?
M: No.
K: And you?
M: What do you think?
K: Did you have sexual intercourse then?
M: What in hell do you think we did? Crack nuts? Yes, I'm sorry but…
K: How long did you stay?
M: I don't know exactly, until one or two. Then I went home.
K: And this was the first time you saw Miss McGraw?
M: Yes, it was the first time.
K: What did you think of her when you left there? And the next day?
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M: I thought… first I thought that she was just an ordinary, cheap tramp although she had not given that impression at all in the beginning. Then I thought that she was a nymphomaniac. One idea was crazier than the other. Now, here, especially since she is dead, it seems absurd that I ever could have thought either of those things.
(Pause)
K: Listen to me, my friend. I assure you that it is just as painful for me to ask these questions as it is for you to answer them. I would never have done this if there hadn't been a purpose. The worst part of it is that we are not through yet. Not by a longshot.
M: I'm sorry that I got upset just now. It's just that I'm not accustomed to the situation and the surroundings. It seems so crazy to sit here and say things about Roseanna, things I have never said to anyone, with detectives running around outside the room and while the tape recorder turns and turns and the sergeant just sits over there and stares. Unfortunately, I'm not exactly a cynic, particularly when it has to do with…
K: Jack, close the Venetian blinds over there. Then wait outside.
(Pause)
ROMNEY: Goodbye.
M: I'm sorry.
K: You have nothing to be sorry about. What actually happened between you and Miss McGraw? After your first meeting?
M: I telephoned her two days later. She didn't want to see me then, she said so quite directly. But she said to call again if I wanted to. The next time I called her—it must have been about a week later—she invited me up.
K: And you…
M: Yes, we slept together. Then it continued like that. Sometimes once a week, sometimes twice. We always met at her apartment. Often on Saturdays, then we were together on Sundays if we were both free.
K: How long did this go on?
M: For eight months.
K: Why did it break up?
M: I fell in love with her.
K: I'm afraid that I don't really understand.
M: Actually it's quite simple. To tell the truth I had been in love with her for a long time. I really loved her. But we never talked about love, so I said nothing.
K: Why not?
M: Because I wanted to hold her. Then when I told her… Well, then it was all over.
K: How did it happen?
M: You have to understand that Roseanna was the most upright person I have ever met. She liked me a lot and above all, she liked to sleep with me. But she didn't want to live with me. She never made any secret of that. Both she and I knew precisely why we would meet.
K: How did she react when you told her that you loved her?
M: She was sad. Then she said: 'We'll sleep together one more time and tomorrow you'll leave here and that's the end. We are not going to hurt one another.'
K: Did you accept that?
M: Yes. If you had known her as well as I had you would have understood that there wasn't anything else to do.
K: When did this happen?
M: On July 3 last year.
K: And that was the end of all contact between you?
M: Yes.
K: Did she see other men during the period you were going together?
M: Yes and no.
K: In other words, did you have the impression that she was together with other men from time to time?
M: It wasn't a question of impressions. I know. In March I attended a four-week course in Philadelphia. Even before I left, she told me that I couldn't count on her being… faithful for such a long time. When I came back I asked her and she said that she had done it once, after three weeks.
K: Had sexual intercourse?
M: Yes. Boy, that's a hell of an expression. I asked her with whom, stupidly enough.
K: What did she answer?
M: That it was none of my business. And it wasn't either, especially from her point of view.
K: During the eight months that you saw her did you have intimate… sleep together regularly? Do I understand you correctly?
