And I knew there was something in the container. But when you started you didn't know what was going to be in the container. I didn't know exactly what it was going to be. It started out being a photograph album, but that went away quickly. And then it was just letters, and those also were demolished.
Different letters are in there now.
This is just the way it goes, as far as I can tell. Well, there are several Irises in the book. There is the narrator recounting all of it in her book. There is child Iris, who is quite a different person. And then there is young woman Iris, who is different again.