Sentence:  It was after the complete revelation that he understood the romantic innuendoes with which his childhood had been surrounded, and of which he had never caught the meaning; they having seemed but part and parcel of the habitual and promiscuous <WSD>divagations</WSD> of his too constructive companion. When it came over him that, for years, she had made a fool of him, to himself and to others, he could have beaten her, for grief and shame ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Straying off from a course or way.