Higham records that Joan has an estranged relationship with her own daughters as well, possibly because she discovered that they were secretly maintaining a relationship with their aunt Olivia.

They were marrano, meaning they outwardly acted as Catholics while secretly maintaining their Jewish faith and practices.

He sped to an uptown hospital maintained secretly by him for emergencies such as this.

Resigned to their fate, Rhys Michael and Michaela agree to start having children, but they secretly maintain the desperate hope of one day being free of the great lords.

She is on estranged terms from her father and her sister Tsubaki, but secretly maintains contact with her other sister Akane and younger brother Makoto.

He reveals that he and the other collected AI fragments have been able to secretly maintain their existence within Epsilon's memories.

Even the Chancela family, who secretly maintained the ziggurat for thousands of years, did not know its purpose.

Lee preferred articles of treason against the sheriff of Kilkenny for secretly maintaining Rice O'Toole.

Sardaukar might secretly maintain control over the downtrodden populace underground.

Although the traveling couple was only supposed to make one phone call per country, Ah Hung was secretly maintaining contact with some of her accomplices in the household.