[ There's no skirting it this time. Fraser is going to use that detective like shrewdness that he's learned from two decades as a police officer to narrow it down to the point: ]

Ray, I know that the ring is important to you. I recognise that, in your former marriage, the presence of it resembled your affection for each other, and that you had difficulty actually surrendering that anchor, even when it was no longer needed.

[ Taking off the ring, after his divorce. Mountie words. But it is...sort of brutal, his delivery. ]

I simply suggested that - perhaps - considering our line of work, and the temperatures involved, jewelery might not be...feasible.