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[The signet ring is Victorian and emblazoned with her initial, hand carved in gold. It's been slid around the neck of a bottle of a good scotch, however, so he figures that's a good insurance policy that she'll like some part of the present.
He drops her present off after he's already received his own. Next to the ring and the bottle is a plain old composition notebook and a black ink pen. Neatly inscribed on the front in the space for a label:]