Orin’s deposition to Steeply

Orin's diagnosis of Avril is that she has undiagnosed O.C.D. that never got treated only because "in her the Disorder doesn't prevent her from functioning" — she is, uniquely, "compulsively efficient even about her obsessions." The architecture is the proof: the Headmaster's House has no real doors or doorways on the first floor, the rooms partitioned by angles and plants so she never has to face a threshold; she kept a wall of monitors to check the oven and the towel-fringes without physically checking. The enclosure-complex built into the building itself. And the sinnuendo lands on the exception — "there are doors upstairs, lockable doors, but that's in service of other compulsions. The Moms's" — a pointed gesture toward the Wayne liaison, the one place in her doorless house where doors exist and lock. The phobia engineers the whole ground floor open and leaves exactly one room that shuts.