Title: A visit, or a trick of the mind?. Sentence 1: When Nellie was home with the kids, her mom would often drop by. Sentence 2: When Nellie was thirty, her mother died after a short illness. Sentence 3: One day, hanging laundry, Nellie looked up at her kitchen window. Sentence 4: She saw her mom smiling, as she'd done a hundred times.
She'd already turned around when she remembered her mother had died.