Chapters 7 and 8

This chapter cleared up a lot of my questions, but the number one being: What sort of scandalous activities might Mr. Quigley and Orpah engage in the after hours of the night? The way Toloki describes the events lead me to believe that there is role playing incest between the father and daughter. If so how could the community of Kivlert knowingly accept the atrocious actions. However, it turns out that the father is essentially entertaining Orpah by dressing up in costumes and remembering forgotten stories and tales of the Abyssinian queen and their lineage. Pheww. I think it's really cool how Orpah had a chance to perform at a Bluegrass Festival, and her dedication to the sitar welcomed other musicians to join her onstage and improvise a song that resulted in approval by the entire audience. Obed has come to fancy Beth Eddy and is persistent on establishing a casino that he even goes to Connecticut to talk to a man about starting a casino. Toloki takes up quilting and begins to become skillful, but tensions at the house arise after he sleeps with Orpah that he ends up living in an RV in the parking lot of the Center. I think it's funny how everyone treats his moving out like he's going to be far away when he's really only a few minutes away from where the Quigley's live. Everyone secretly misses Toloki moving out that the children at least constantly visit him. Ruth and Mahlon feel like Toloki was devil sent and took away their children.