Prosecutors in North Carolina and Massachusetts have been in contact with the two women who accused Mr. Fairfax — Vanessa Tyson and Meredith Watson — but there has been no public indication yet that a criminal investigation has been formally opened. Republican lawmakers announced plans for an investigative hearing, and both accusers have said repeatedly that they are willing to testify publicly as part of a bipartisan process, but Democratic lawmakers have balked, seeing such a hearing as a fruitless exercise prone to partisan grandstanding. At this point, there are few other obvious options.

“We are actually engaged in initiating processes that will make the truth known,” Mr. Fairfax said at the event in Hampton, speaking over the live jazz music and pleas for him to join in group photos. He declined to elaborate further.

On Sunday, a lawyer for Mr. Fairfax issued a news release saying that Mr. Fairfax had undergone polygraph examinations administered by a former F.B.I. agent, and that the results “demonstrated that Lt. Gov. Fairfax was telling the truth” in denying the allegations. A spokeswoman said these exams were separate from the “processes” that Mr. Fairfax had spoken of earlier.

And so life goes on in Virginia, with the legislature coming back this week for a quick session and with the political jockeying getting underway before the primaries in June. Democratic lawmakers who are asked what may come next on the scandal front have no concrete answer; most say their constituents would rather hear about roadwork, school financing and health care.

Those, after all, are matters that state politicians can actually change, as opposed to the things that apparently they cannot.

“The calls for resignation have not been rescinded,” Delegate Jeff Bourne, a member of the legislative black caucus, said a few days before appearing with the governor at a bill-signing ceremony. “But I think it’s one of those things where we are operating in the current state of affairs. And the current state of affairs is that the governor and lieutenant governor are still there.”