Subtle

If there is one thing I find always amazing with Stephen King's works, it should be the way he announces the 'going' of a person in such a subtle, unhurting but painful way.  I am sorry to be a spoiler, but I couldn't help but quote this, to be very clear on what I said.

I have wondered since then - I know it's morbid, but yes, I've wondered - if she would have smoked more of it if she had known it was to be her last.

It might sound trivial to you.  But read the book and you just might see what my whole point is.