Do I say anything or let it be?
GENTLE READER: As the price does not, from an etiquette point of view, affect their value -- even if the Hope Diamond hung from one of the earrings -- Miss Manners can only conclude that you felt your thanks were inadequate to the emotion being expressed.
She will leave it to your mother to explain what is implicitly communicated by accepting expensive presents from beaux. If you keep the earrings anyway, she counsels another, more effusive, round of thanks next time you wear them -- without mentioning that you now know their value for insurance purposes.
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