What you say when someone begins wholeheartedly and enthusiastically agreeing with your point of view, but you would have thought that this particular person would not truly be willing to go along with your idea, and so you suspect that he is merely trying to put you in a better mood and is thus building up to saying, "But in spite of my sympathy for your position/situation, I still feel that..."

When you eat dirt for the first time and leave your family to build a shack in the woods