:51:00
Who knows? I don't intend
to remain in California for ever.
:51:04
Oh, Diego.
:51:13
- What you suggest is utterly impossible.
- I'll give the girl a dowry of 20,000 pesos.
:51:18
- No.
- 25,000.
:51:20
Are you buying my son, Señor Quintero?
:51:23
- There's the practical side to consider.
- It doesn't enter into this.
:51:27
You come here on a friendly mission
with half a company oftroops. Why?
:51:30
Not to threaten you, Don Alejandro.
It's because ofthis Zorro.
:51:34
Zorro is only a symptom. This whole district
is bleeding under your vile administration.
:51:39
I won't condone it by marriage
between our families.
:51:41
- In that case, my friendly attitude will cease.
- Buenas tardes, Excellency.
:51:47
What is all this fatiguing turmoil about?
:51:49
His Excellency has offered a marriage
between his niece Lolita and you, Diego.
:51:53
His niece? How flattering.
:51:56
But why should that
cause an argument on a hot day like this?
:52:00
Your father resents my efforts
to make the people here more, uh...
:52:04
- industrious than under his regime.
- Grinding them into poverty
:52:07
- to line your own pockets is hardly...
- Oh, politics, politics.
:52:11
- What have they to do with my marriage?
- You'd marry into the family...
:52:14
Well, how can I tell until I've seen her?
She may look like her uncle.
:52:18
Quite right. I...
:52:20
Oh, no, Diego. She's a sweet little dove.
:52:24
It would desolate us
to have her leave the nest.
:52:26
- If she were Venus, she'd still be his niece.
- Yes, but I'm not marrying His Excellency.
:52:33
- Oh.
- Diego,
:52:36
don't you think the wishes ofyour father,
in this sort of matter, should be considered?
:52:40
But I had no say in my father's marriage.
Why should he try to instruct me in mine?
:52:45
Exactly. Will you dine with us tonight, Diego?
:52:49
- Charmed.
- We'll expect you at eight o'clock.
:52:53
Adiós, señora.
:52:57
Diego, Diego, what have you done?