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What is 0. Henry's message in the following passage in Section 19 of "The Gift of the Magi"?

19- It was a platinum fob chain simple and chaste [modest] in design, properly proclaiming its value by substance alone and not by meretricious [showy, cheap] ornamentation--as all good things should do.

A. It is better to buy a dull gift than a flashy
one.
B. Ornaments are cheap but chains are valued.
C. Value should be placed more in quality than in flashy appearance.