I only point out the fact.
To do that is to acquiesce, really.

I acquiesce; I have to.

But one may long for the more delicate appreciations that seem to flower where life has gone on longer." "I imagine," Finlay said, "that to wish truly and ardently for such things is to possess them.

If you didn't possess them you wouldn't desire them! As they say, as they say--" "As they say ?" "About love.

Some novelist does.