Geary cried out, "Caesar's ghost!" and Vandover swore under his breath.
"If that isn't the strangest thing I ever saw!" cried Turner.

"_Isn't_ that funny--why--oh! I'm going _to try it with another glass_!" But the second glass remained intact.

Geary recovered from his surprise and tried to explain how it could happen.
"It was the heat from your fingers and the glass was cold, you know," he said again and again.
But the strangeness of the thing still held them.

Turner set down the glass with the others and dropped into a chair, letting her hands fall in her lap, looking into their faces, nodding her head and shutting her lips: "Ah, _no_," she said after a while.

"That _is_ funny.