A Pair of Patient Lovers (annotated)

A Pair of Patient Lovers is a classic romance novel by by William Dean Howell that fearures the following exerpt: We first met Glendenning on the Canadian boat which carries you down the rapids of the St. Lawrence from Kingston and leaves you at Montreal. When we saw a handsome young clergyman across the promenade-deck looking up from his guide-book toward us, now and again, as if in default of knowing any one else he would be very willing to know us, we decided that I must make his acquaintance.