"On October 11 Peter died. "Peter dead!" screamed Dolly. How much more could she suffer? William soon learned. It was not enough that there was no faithful Kitty there to comfort her in her grief - not friends of any kind in Mudnabati - but William himself was completely distracted by problems with the burial. For it seemed no one would help. "I can't get the carpenters at the plant to make us a coffin," William told Felix out of Dolly's hearing. "It seems that not only do both Hindus and Muslims refuse to touch the dead in any way but they will not assist in any way." Finally he had to coerce four Muslim workers into digging a grave south of the plant, far away from any known Muslim graves."