Sentence:  There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy....Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers <WSD>wander</WSD> restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.