Originally Posted by kowalski

Also in your version you don't actually tell her that she is really cute at all. Instead you explain why you have stopped her. You are explaining yourself to her, which is pretty weak. Giving a reason for you being yourself. Excusing yourself almost. You "just wanted to come over here and tell (her) that (she is) really cute" but you never did that. You never told her.

In my version you are just being yourself and acting according to your desires and you actually tell her that she is really cute, like a free man, instead of describing your wish to tell her, like a servant or slave.