He smiled and put his gigantic hand on my head like we were two white people with a secret understanding.

"Ah, I always thought there was some secret understanding in that quarter!"

He was strangely terrified by the look of secret understanding in her beautiful eyes.

There was a secret understanding between Himself and her.

"There is some secret understanding between them," thought the old lady, "and she's to blame; the women always are!"

And he would look at the children in a way that suggested the most intimate of secret understanding between himself and them.

There was already a sort of secret understanding between them.

"Was this 'important' enough to make you agree to a secret understanding with Chewning?"

The sissie reacted as though they had a secret understanding.

Mareth's eyes met his own and held them with secret understanding.