“You know I was obliged,” said Camilla, – “I was obliged to be firm. I said, ‘It WILL NOT DO, for the credit of the family.’ I told him that, without deep trimmings, the family was disgraced. I cried about it from breakfast till dinner. I injured my digestion.”
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 11. The ridiculous Mrs. Camilla is at once dramatic and hyperbolic in her comments about the trimmings worn at the funeral of the wife of a man named Tom. With absurd exaggeration, she says she cried about it from breakfast to dinner and hurt her digestion. Dickens uses Mrs. Camilla as a satirical figure to satirize aspects of upper class Victorian society like its superficiality.