What do tourists do? They walk, they stand, they look, they buy. They fumble for money on buses, not knowing whether to pay the driver or the conductor. They visit famous monuments, fountains, old houses full of stone and shutters and anachronistic lace. They notice that the day without duty passes with the slowness of a dream. They know that their existence is without point. They envy those who go arm in arm, who have a home to go to.
Does "old houses full of stone and shutters and anachronistic lace" mean "old houses made of stone that have shutters and old lace curtains"? Can we say that "anachronistic lace" here means "old curtains"?
And does "They notice that the day without duty passes with the slowness of a dream" mean "They notice that the day without duty passes very slowly like a dream"?
Source: The Children's Bach by Helen Garner