Who is Volumnia Dedlock? Discuss her role and her physical appearance.

Volumnia is basically a non-contributor who is at the Dedlock home because she has no resources of her own. She is a deadbeat relative who takes advantage of her wealthier cousin when she can, living on a thread of income from Sir Leceister. She has not developed much marketable talent and tends to be boring. Her name implies that she is overweight. She is elderly and a little overly made-up with rouge in "indiscreet profusion."