there was something about how the carter had broken his leg , poor man , or maybe it was his horse that had broken a leg , poor creature , and one of the blizzards had brought down a lot of trees onto the track , and then the snow had set in so cruelly , dear , that not even a man on foot could get through , and so what with one thing and another the mail to and from the chalk had been delayed and really there was hardly any of it anyway- all this was a kind of background buzzing to tiffany , because the letters were all addressed to her- three from roland and one from her mother-and so was the parcel .