. . .
Deep under Lemuria, where a person ought not go, she loses her virginity to Brad Hamstock and threatens to marry him, whereupon he mysteriously vanishes from the expedition. Despite assiduous searching, no explanation is forthcoming; she concludes, after a while, that he must have been eaten by a snark.
Later she discovers herself pregnant.
“Oh, really,” says Amelia, in disgust.
This snark, might it have in fact been a boojum?
That’s what SHE said