They are on a package tour of Turkey, and he is taking a long time looking at everything, especially old art. She is very impatient. She wants to sit someplace, drink something, and watch the passing scene in a non-intent way.

She doesn't think about him, her husband, being a visual artist, a painter, who is looking at a whole other way of looking at things. She's just impatient.

--It happens in the novel "Blaming" by Elizabeth Taylor, the British novelist.