what's the meaning of fretful ease in this sentence?

Outside The Cluny, of course, where we and others like
us gathered, where we lay at fretful ease on the sloping
grass to dream of being artists, where we explored the
ways of love and friendship, where we trembled with the
weird joys and pains of being young and getting older,
where we yearned for freedom and ached just to belong.

miera2017-01-20T15:35:43Z

Fretful In A Sentence

Anonymous2016-11-15T05:52:16Z

The young people were at ease i.e. not working but worrying "fretful" about the future.