very newbie question about object creation count

I have not been able to figure out why this ends up with a negative
object count (the class
counts how many objects there are). I am sure this is obvious to
everyone else. Could someone please
point out why the count is not correct. Sorry to ask such a dumb
question.

It gives the output:

Constructor called, so we have 1 TestClass objects.
Destructor called so we will have 0 TestClass objects.
Destructor called so we will have -1 TestClass objects.

Here is the code:

#include<iostream>


class TestClass {
       public:
               static int activeObjects; // How many of this type of
object were constructed

               TestClass() {      // default constructor
                       activeObjects ++;
                       std::cout << "Constructor called, so we have "
<< activeObjects << " TestClass objects.\n";
               }
               TestClass( const TestClass & rhs ) {      // copy
constructor
                       activeObjects ++;
                       std::cout << "Copy constructor called, so we
have " << activeObjects << " TestClass objects.\n";
               }
               ~TestClass() {      // destructor
                       activeObjects--;
                       std::cout << "Destructor called so we will have
" << activeObjects << " TestClass objects.\n";
               }
};

int TestClass::activeObjects = 0;

int main() {
       TestClass object = TestClass();
       object.~TestClass();

}