Sentence:  Mike <WSD>remained</WSD> in trance ; there was much to grok , loose ends to puzzle over and fit into his growing - all that he had seen and heard and been at the Archangel Foster Tabernacle ( not just cusp when he and Digby had come face to face alone ) - why Bishop Senator Boone made him warily uneasy , how Miss Dawn Ardent tasted like a water brother when she was not , the smell of goodness he had incompletely grokked in the jumping up and down and wailing - 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  stay the same; remain in a certain state