She loves to ride and swordfight.
She eagerly dances passionately with him given the chance.
She wishes Alejandro aka Zorro would become more of a family man.
In addition to sexual attraction, Zorro personified passion, danger and gallantry, everything that Eléna loved and wanted.
De la Vega uses this opportunity to become closer to Elena: still posing as Bernardo, he learns that Montero raised her claiming her mother died in childbirth.
In one of the film's most popular scenes, Alejandro renders Eléna topless with a flurry of sword slashes.
As a beautiful, 21-year-old adult with no knowledge of her true family, Elena first encounters the second Zorro when he steals some horses on his first night out and again, without realizing it, when he is hiding as a confessional priest and again when he is posing as an aristocrat and shares a passionate dance with him.
It has been twenty years since Don Diego de la Vega fought Spanish oppression in Alta California as the legendary romantic hero Zorro.