An illustration accompanying an extract from Wilkie Collins' book, 'The Law and the Lady'. The caption reads: 'Instead of answering he burst into a fit of laughter- loud, coarse, hard laughter, so utterly unlike any sound I had ever yet heard issue from his lips, so strangely and shockingly foreign to his character as I understood it, that I stood still on the sands, and openly remonstrated with him'.