Sentence:  I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge <WSD>occupied</WSD> by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To fill time.