Just enough time to change the beds and get the laundry started.

Crane muttered, "Probably just a maid wanting to change the beds."

Besides, it would take only ten or fifteen minutes to strip and change the beds and turn on a wash.

Every career woman with a family does the wash, the laundry, scrubs floors, cleans the bathrooms, changes the beds.

I empty the garbage, I change the beds, clean the bathroom, give fresh towels, dust, vacuum.

Because it was her day of the week to change the beds and do the laundry and the general housecleaning, Conchita arrived at Ted's ahead of Eduardo.

No more comfortable living room, no more huge breakfasts put out by the cheery Gregory and Tom, no more Odille singing "Frre Jacques" while she changed the beds.

In reality husbands demand meals at specific times, small children cry when their stomachs are empty, the hour that might be spent cooking competes with the hour that ought to be spent washing the floor or changing the beds.