Edward's comments about the shells made Mable click her tongue and roll her eyes, but she continued looking through them anyway.  "It's not stupid, it's nice!  If you ever forget what color your eyes are, you can just look at the shell, and say, that's right!  My eyes look just like this, and they're very beautiful!  And then you'll feel very good about yourself.  Here you are!"

Triumphantly, Mable turned to her friend and held out a small shell that had stripes of blue in between splotches of yellow along it's ridges.  She pointed at them happily.

"There, that's the color of your eyes!  See how pretty that is?  Oh, Edward, this shell was made for you I think.  Here, have it!  It'll be like, a small gift before I give you your real birthday gift, okay?  Not stupid at all!"