Possibly an official enquiry from them, as a way to break awkward situations

Usage examples of stewards.

Beckoning to the stewards, she had a cup of wine brought for the Aoi woman.

The stewards looked English, however, in conformity to what seems the ideal of every kind of foreign seafaring people, and that went a good way toward making them intelligible.

Quiet was achieved by an advanced degree of insulation both in cabin suites and engine room, by imitating the royal yacht britannia inasmuch as that no orders were ever shouted and the deck crew and stewards invariably wore rubber-soled sandals and by eliminating all the bands, parties, games, and dances which lesser cruise passengers believed essential for the enjoyment of shipboard life.

He was the man ultimately responsible for all the stewards aboard the ship.

I prayed for good weather to tempt our passengers out onto the sun decks to give the stewards, in the course of making up beds and cleaning out the cabins, the chance to carry out a thorough search.

But none of the others went in or out of any of the suites, only stewards with trays.

Two stewards stood by the door, looking bored as they guarded the wine.

By the time the biscop arrived, flanked by stewards carrying handsome ceramic lamps, the battle lines had been drawn: the servingwomen huddled in the pallet, all chattering accusations so loudly that Hanna thought she would go deaf, the steward and servants off to one side, licking their wounds, and Lord Wichman and his pack of wormy dogsa dozen scarred, cocky, brash young noblemenstanding defiantly by the smoldering hearth.

She called her stewards to her and spoke to them in an urgent undertone.

Absently, he mopped his brow with a cloth and handed it to one of Kis stewards, come up beside him.

His stewards dressed him quickly in his robes of state, and Rosvita hastily anointed him with a dab of holy oil on his forehead before placing the crown of Wendar and Varre on his head.

Two stewards had already hurried in, and they hastily set up his traveling throne, with the dragon arms, the eagle-wing back, and the lion legs and paws to support it.

Bareheaded, blue-jacketed, brassbuttoned stewards dodged skillfully in and out among them with their hand-bags, holdalls, hat-boxes, and state-room trunks, and ran before them into the different depths and heights where they hid these burdens, and then ran back for more.

People who had brought their handbaggage with them from their rooms looked so much safer with it that people who had left theirs to their stewards had to go back and pledge them afresh not to forget it.

At last the trunks were all on the tender, and the bareheaded stewards began to run down the gangways with the hand-baggage.