if there was a smell , some smell , then he knew it too , maybe , because bev saw less and less of him as the hot weather wore on , partly because of his summer bowling league , partly because he was helping his friend joe tammerly fix cars ... but she suspects it was partly that smell , the one they made between them , neither of them meaning to but making it just the same , as helpless to stop it as either was helpless to stop sweating in july .