Lucy and Gino bring the baby home and are welcomed by their efficient, no-nonsense housekeeper Mrs. Hyde (Hilary Mason).

Gladys may have been a wonderfully efficient housekeeper in white South Miami, but her own house was, to a 7-year-old, fabulously messy, noisy and chaotic.

"Grabble-tongued creatures," he muttered to Mrs. Osmington, the duke's briskly efficient housekeeper.

She had the air of authority of a trusted and efficient housekeeper.

They have expected her to be super-wife, good in bed, a wonderful mother, an efficient housekeeper, a co-counsellor, and an earner of income.

'She has been invaluable to me as a secretary-companion, and is also a very efficient housekeeper.'

Perhaps Mila was more than just an efficient housekeeper who dusted his brangwaskin books and scrolls.

Mrs. Blashfield was among New York's most efficient municipal housekeepers.

Tory glanced down the hall to see their very efficient housekeeper, Mrs. Gray, hustling toward her, carrying a list of last minute details.

She still looked after the house and in time became an efficient housekeeper.