Private secrets

Anna wouldn't have admitted anything to her mother, that her husband isn't, to put it mildly, as perfect a man as her dad was, but she never knew him, Lucie, of course, she doesn't want to say anything about the father of her unborn child. Mr Gruss insists that between midnight and one o'clock in the morning the gatehouse of Sternberg Palace must be locked and therefore out of use, whereas Milada has refused to let anyone into the chapel for God knows how many years. For Jaroslav Rudiš, the narrator of the story, it is a mystery what happened last night and why he has tomatoes from a nearby diner hanging on a bush on his balcony, while for Tomáš Marek Epstein it is his new phone. And how is the Jewish cemetery in Mikulov connected with the first milk tooth of little Esther?