The jewelry pouch sits unopened on his knee, but she may guess at the wedding rings in there, among a couple other items of Rachel's and Alex's.
He stares down at the photos, taking slow breaths. It's both painful and good to look at them, because he never wants their images to fade from his mind. "If they hadn't known me..." To say that would have made them safe isn't technically accurate, because Rachel would have died as a child without him, and John's fate as a baby in an orphanage is impossible to guess at.