:28:49
So then, Teodoro,
you've a mind to marry?
:28:52
No mind for anything
unless you wish it.
:28:55
My offence is not so gross
as others say.
:28:57
You know that envy has...
:28:59
...a scorpion's tongue,
and had Ovid been a servant...
:29:03
...he wouldn't have described...
:29:05
...its dwelling in Ionely vales,
for it's here among us.
:29:08
It isn't true, then,
that you love Marcela?
:29:11
I could survive without her.
:29:14
I hear you've lost
your wits about her.
:29:17
Wits like mine
are no great loss.
:29:19
But even though Marcela
may well merit such devotion...
:29:23
...I've not shown it.
:29:25
Nor murmured such
endearments...
:29:27
...as would beguile
a loftier lady?
:29:30
Words cost little.
:29:31
Tell me what you told her.
:29:33
How does a man, Teodoro,
court a woman?
:29:36
As one who loves
and pleads...
:29:38
...wrapping one half-truth
in 1,000 lies.
:29:41
Yes, but...
:29:43
...with what words?
:29:45
You press me strangely, madam.
:29:49
"Those eyes of yours",
I said...
:29:52
..."beam forth the light
by which my eyes perceive."
:29:56
"The pearls and coral
of that mouth divine..."
:29:59
Divine?