She does not suspect the truth, of course, and it helps maintain the fiction.

Another reason not to maintain the fiction.

If I am to maintain the fiction that my father is in control of his House, Thomas cannot remain.

Best not to know and maintain the fiction that judges operate on pure intelligence applied to the law of the land.

Locke and Jean had maintained the fiction of rooming together for several years.

All the while she maintained the fiction that I had arranged things previously.

Up to then, he maintained the fiction that he would fight me for it.

In public, the paper and its publisher maintained the fiction that hacking was the work of a single rogue reporter.

Several White House occupants, and candidates, have been sick or incapacitated - but they've often maintained the fiction that nothing is wrong.

To the very end she maintained the fiction that she was my foster-mother, responsible to my parents for my advancement in education and morals.

Cameron had not yet renegotiated the terms of Britain's EU membership and was still maintaining the fiction that he might back a vote to leave.