

The series ends with a Time Skip showing the two falling in love and deciding to marry after The Reveal that they weren't actually related.

It's implied that this helped make him so Ax-Crazy - he's shown to have been a little off-kilter even before the event, having joked about his entire village dying and happily looted their corpses when they did, his violent tendencies seem to date from it, not to mention his compulsive promiscuity.

Episode 8 shows that Alois was raped by the former Lord Trancy. He even becomes the favorite boy, taking place for the man's son who vanished as a baby - the real Alois Trancy which allows him to take the name Alois after Claude kills the Earl. It's quite obvious even then he is not a virgin, as he dolls up and puts on a beautiful red robe, seducing the old man expertly until the guy's kissing his feet. There, he living with a bunch of boys in the same condition, being bathed and treated like cattle, all while being a sex slave to an old man. Think about this: Jim is only around 11 when he goes to Earl Trancy's manor. Knowing how things like that work out, and especially after seeing his reactions to things later on, it's quite obvious that this young boy solicited himself for food or shelter before he even hit a double digit age. After his little brother and entire village are killed, this already slightly off boy (who laughed cheerfully as he robbed the dead) begins living as a true city street rat. Black Butler: Happens in the second season, considering Alois' whole life is a bit of Fridge Horror.Just know that after enjoying this story collection, you’ll be certain to pull out your old, yellowed copy of Jane Eyre (mine is a Signet Classic from 1960) and enjoy it one more time. Rochester himself in “Reader, She Married Me.” Finally, Elizabeth McCracken’s story is a fully modern take on the construct of marriage as two men take their young son on a day trip in “Robinson Crusoe at the Waterpark.” Helen Dunmore gives us “Grace Poole Her Testimony,” offering a decidedly different take on the ever-stoic Grace and her true role at Thornfield, while Salley Vickers paints a not-so-happily-ever-after picture from Mr. One of the most thought-provoking is Susan Hill’s title story, “Reader, I Married Him,” which gradually reveals the identity of the historical character who is narrating, and demands that the Reader rethink probably knee-jerk assessments she may have about one of modern history’s most notorious and reviled home-wreckers. These stories make an impression too each one is thoroughly engaging beyond the frisson of discovering how each author uses the shared springboard. Inspired, that is, by both the book and the titular character, who – for many girls who are now women of a certain age – was the first strong, independent-minded female character in literature we ever met. Conceived of, edited by, and with a contribution from Tracy Chevalier ( Girl with a Pearl Earring), this collection of stories is out in time to celebrate Brontë’s 2016 bicentenary, and it features wonderful writing by a cast of strong female authors, each contributing one of these “stories inspired by Jane Eyre.”

As anyone with even a passing familiarity with Charlotte Brontë knows, “Reader, I married him,” is the climactic sentence of Brontë’s book for the ages, Jane Eyre.
