Un grado de separación

Y eso me recuerda que habría una opción aún mejor en lo que a ese tipo de hombre se refiere. M'sieu le comte d'Algou, grandísimo Melvyn Douglas, finura etérea de galán enamorado. EL diálogo. Ed incomincio a volare...

LEON

                         What kind of a girl are you, anyway?

                              NINOTCHKA
                  Just what you see. A tiny cog in the
                  great wheel of evolution.

                              LEON
                  You're the most adorable cog I ever
                  saw in my life. Ninotchka,
                  let me confess something. Never did
                  I dream I could feel like this toward
                  a sergeant.

        A clock strikes.

                              LEON
                  Do you hear that?

                              NINOTCHKA
                  It's twelve o'clock.

                              LEON
                  It's midnight. One half of Paris is
                  making love to the other half. Look
                  at the clock. One hand has met the
                  other hand. They kiss. Isn't that
                  wonderful?

                              NINOTCHKA
                  That's the way a clock works. There's
                  nothing wonderful about it. You merely
                  feel you must put yourself in a
                  romantic mood to add to your
                  exhilaration.

                              LEON
                  I can't possibly think of a better
                  reason.

                              NINOTCHKA
                  It's false sentimentality.

                              LEON
                       (trying desperately 
                              to make her mood 
                              more romantic)
                  You analyze everything out of
                  existence. You analyze me out of
                  existence. I won't let you. Love is
                  not so simple. Ninotchka, Ninotchka,
                  why do doves bill and coo? Why do
                  snails, coldest of all creatures,
                  circle interminably around each other?
                  Why do moths fly hundreds of miles
                  to find their mates? Why do flowers
                  open their petals? Oh, Ninotchka,
                  Ninotchka, surely you feel some slight
                  symptom of the divine passion... a
                  general warmth in the palms of your
                  hands... a strange heaviness in your
                  limbs... a burning of the lips that
                  is not thirst but a thousand times
                  more tantalizing, more exalting,
                  than thirst?

        He pauses, waiting for the results of his speech.

                              NINOTCHKA
                  You are very talkative.

        That is too much for Leon. He takes her into his arms and 
               kisses her.

                              LEON
                  Was that talkative?

                              NINOTCHKA
                  No, that was restful. Again.

        Leon kisses her again.

                              NINOTCHKA
                  Thank you.