maunderingly

I read it as it is she who will emerge with sardonic humor as she is always “here I am now” and not maunderingly fiddling time/space.

AFTER I BUILT A TIME MACHINE • by Trevor Foley 2009

He talked on afterward in his bunk, maunderingly, as his fever rose, to which succeeded the stupor of exhaustion.

The Hoodoo of the Minnietta 1907

He talked on afterward in his bunk, maunderingly, as his fever rose, to which succeeded the stupor of exhaustion.

The Hoodoo of the Minnietta 1907

Edward, on the other hand, believed maunderingly that some essential attractiveness in himself must have made the girl continue to go on loving him -- to go on loving him, as it were, in underneath her official aspect of hatred.

The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford 1906

[_He resumes his dragging march toward the door, repeating maunderingly_]

The Melting-Pot Israel Zangwill 1895

Beneath the bridge the river flowed maunderingly, blundering out unintelligible news of its parent bog and all the dreary places it had come through on its way to the strath of Glamerton, which nobody listened to but one glad-hearted, puzzle-brained girl, who stood looking down into it from the bridge when she ought to have been in bed and asleep.

Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864