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You're talking about characters who have different perceptions of what went on and who did what to whom and who was acquiescing and who wasn't.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2015

This was the precise period of time in which our fathers adopted, and during which they followed, a policy restricting the spread of slavery, and the whole Union was acquiescing in it.

From The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 5: 1858-1862 by Lincoln, Abraham

He felt he was acquiescing in something illegal, taking to himself some wrong, reprehensible advantages.

From The Rainbow by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

Meantime Averil Ward was acquiescing in all Henry's projects with calm desperate passiveness.

From The Trial by Yonge, Charlotte Mary