McCarron manages to deliver the infant alive and well. Her lungs in her decapitated body are still pumping air, as her head, some feet away, is working to sustain the breathing method so that the baby can be born. McCarron arrives at the crash site and realizes that Sandra is somehow still alive. However, when she goes into labor and is on the way to the hospital on an icy winter night, her taxi crashes and she is decapitated.
McCarron's unusual (for the 1930s) breathing method intended to help her through childbirth. McCarron comes to admire her bravery and humor, and the implication is that he has even fallen a bit in love with her. Emlyn McCarron tells a story about an episode that took place early in his long and varied career: that of a patient, Sandra Stansfield, who was determined to give birth to her illegitimate child, no matter what, despite financial problems and social disapproval. One Thursday before Christmas, the elderly physician Dr. The club and its butler are also featured in King's short story " The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands". At the invitation of a senior partner, he joins a strange men's club where the members, in addition to reading, chatting and playing pool and chess, like to tell stories, some of which range into the bizarre and macabre. Plot ĭavid, the narrator of the frame tale, is a middle-aged Manhattan lawyer. It is placed in the section entitled "A Winter's Tale". The Breathing Method is a novella by American writer Stephen King, originally released as part of his Different Seasons collection in 1982.
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