What would make Joyce a coward?
On one hand, she had to face the reality that was in front of her with a brave and smiling face and on the other, where she could take advantage of leniency, she faced it with her face he ran behind the walls of the university.
Yes, in other words, she was ignoring George and dodging his calls.
And this might have to continue until she had a date for the wedding. As soon as she would, she was going to drop out of college and break up with him.
Her heart could only take so much.
It did not help that he knew most of her timetable by now. If she had bothered to make any friends in the beginning of a bachelors, she would have had people that would help her escape the eyesight of George but now she has to do it all alone.