It's difficult to play cards with someone who's gone missing, but even now Childermass won't say that, not directly. So instead he shrugs. At least that hasn't changed about him!

"I was under the impression that she would prefer Venice," is what he says instead, which doesn't reveal anything in particular, although it's most certainly not a fact one could expect him, of all people, to have an inkling of. Another card ends up discarded, another drawn, still no angel of death this round. If Strange watches the other players at all, he'll eventually catch at least one making off with something from the discard pile as sneakily as possible rather than drawing fresh from the deck.