If it kept wedding rings at all, it was decently reticent about them, and it did keep a profusion of other trinkets about which a possible recipient could entertain no false notions.

Wrist watches, for example.

No one could find subtle or hidden meanings in a wrist watch.
He chose a bauble that glittered prettily on its black silk bracelet, and was not shocked in the least when told by the engaging salesman that its price was a sum for which in the old days Gashwiler had demanded a good ten weeks of his life.

Indeed it seemed rather cheap to him when he remembered the event it should celebrate.

Still, it was a pleasing trifle and did not look cheap.
"Do you warrant it to keep good time ?" he sternly demanded.
The salesman became diplomatic, though not without an effect of genial man-to-man frankness.