Her husband opened a bottle of the finest champagne that the cellars of Smeaton could supply, to drink to the prosperity of the voyage, and the health of his beautiful fellow-voyager.

When he had filled the two tall glasses the wine began to run over the side which was toward the stern of the vessel.

They took no notice of this at first, but when Zaidie put her glass down she stared at it for a moment, and said, in a half-frightened voice: "Why, what's the matter, Lenox?
look at the wine! It won't keep straight, and yet the table's perfectly level--and see! the water in the jug looks as though it were going to run up the side." Redgrave took up the glass and held it balanced in his hand.

When he had got the surface of the wine level the glass was no longer perpendicular to the table.
"Ah, I see what it is," he said, taking another sip and putting the glass down.

"You notice that, although the wine isn't lying straight in the glass, it isn't moving about.