She would pretend innocence, while her brother learned the fact for himself.
Surely they would rather travel in the light of day, pretending innocence until they found a victim.
"But virtue does not consist in pretending innocence while placing a burden of crime upon someone else."
- At least she wasn't trying to pretend complete innocence.
She looked at me out of the corners of her eyes, pretending innocence.
They've done away with him, that's what, and now they're pretending innocence.
She had to pretend innocence, until she could afford to stop pretending.
I pretended innocence as he opened the door and caught my mother in her lover's arms.
So the best hope lay in doing what the partisans did: once the mission was lost, merging with the population and pretending innocence.