the Orin call: "the Moms and Québec" in the litany

Buried in Hal's catalog of unspeakable family subjects — "the Moms and Québec and Royal Victoria, the Moms and immigration" — Avril's Québec origin and her Royal Victoria College post and her immigration file are named as one of the family's charged silences. Avril's Québec ties (the R.C.M.P. list, the L'Islet farm) register here as a thing the brothers know not to discuss.