Madam Maude

Madam Maude
A quack doctor, Madam Maude sells her homemade cures and potions out of a shop on Street Level. She lives and rules her extensive brood of sons and grandsons from her apartments on the top floor (4th) of the tenement above her shop, and rents out the middle floors. A statuesque woman, hefty in build, powerful of lung, liberal with the make-up brush, and a great believer in the value of intimidation through the height of one's hairstyle, Madam Maude is a cheat and a fraud--not even she believes that anything she peddles has medical value--but she's honest with those who deal fairly with her, if she likes them. She doesn't over-charge her tenants, and if someone Madam Maude likes has a problem, she's likely to send her gang of offspring to take care of it. She generally wears layers of flowing robes in garish colors, with her nails painted to match. A fleet of small dogs--five, seven, no one ever seems to know--follow her around and lie at her feet whenever she holds still. She extended her protection to Jim Vimes after he became one of her favorite tenants, and she takes a motherly interest in his niece, Beatrice Wimsey.