Elobrate the character sketch of Mrs. Lomand in The basket full of sea trouts
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Introduction
A Basketful of Sea Trout” is a short play written by Neil Grant. The play is about the murder mystery of Nellie Salter, a beautiful young woman. There were two people who were suspected of the murder, Hector Lomond, her lover and Mrs Lomond, Hector’s mother. Hector was released from the custody as no evidence was found against him and Mrs Lomond denied any knowledge about Nellie’s movement as she was basking on the beach the whole day. After the judge gave his verdict, Mrs Lomond visited his lodge one night, with the gratitude gift of ‘basketful of sea touts’ for the judge. Then she gave minute details of Nellie’s movement on the day of the murder, which made the judge and his guest Brodie susceptible of Mrs Lomond being the murderer.
Summary
The play, ‘A Basketful of Sea Trout’ is a mystery play. It has four visible characters. Lord Findhorn, Brodie, Colonel Allardyce and Jean Lomond. We have characters like Nellie Salter, Hector Lomond, Inspector Souter who we only know through other characters they are not visible on the stage.
Brodie and the Judge Findhorn have conversation and discussion about the mysterious murder of Nellie Salter. There was no clear evidence as to who was involved in the murder. Mrs Lomond’s son, a lover of Nellie Salter was arrested for interrogation. But he was later acquitted on not being found guilty by the court. Mrs Lomond was also suspected but she evaded the issue by telling the court that she was on the beach all through the day and had no information about the moments of Nellie Salter on that day.
During this discussion of Brodie and Findhorn, Mrs Lomond had suddenly entered the room and thanked the judge for acquitting her son Hector. She had come to the judge’s lodge a pitch-dark night with a basketful of sea Trout as a gift for the favour from the judge. She had thought that the judge had favoured her by releasing her son. During her conversation with the two people she gave a detailed description of Nellie’s movements before her murder which was absolutely unexpected of her as in the court, she had outrightly denied having any information about Nellie’s movements on the day of her murder. She unveiled such facts about Nellie’s movements which were quite unknown to anyone else.
Nellie is getting to ready to meet an airman, her dressing for the occasion, her going up on the hillside, applying paint and powder, looking around on the hills and the lake was heard for the first time by the judge and Brodie. She gave an accurate description of even the slightest movements of Nellie. She could recall the words that Nellie uttered. The judge and his guest were stupefied and surprised how she knew all that. Thus, they concluded that she must have followed Nellie Salter and then killed her.
Meanwhile, the two asked Lomond to sit in a side room to rest for a while and started examining the case again. After sometime they heard another knock on the door and Col Allardyce who was the chief constable and in charge of this case in police station came in. The Judge shared everything about the new development in the case with Allardyce who rejected the story immediately. The Col Allardyce informed the judge that the body of Lomond was already fished from the lake by one of his officers Mr Souter. This information stupefied the two again and they refused to accept it.
They called Jean Lomond to join them but heard no voice. The opened the door of the room where Lomond had gone but she was not there now. Col Allardyce thought that the two had drunk too much and had lost their conscience. The Judge told him that she had come with a basketful of Sea Trout. All the three stepped out of the room and found the basket near the gate.
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