"Then be glad. There's nothing else left for you to lose," he tells her outright. Ten of Swords, she's hit the very rock bottom of her life, and now it's all over and she won't have to suffer anymore (or, more likely, things can only go up from hereon out, but that's too cheery for Childermass and doesn't quite fit their obvious future now).

That said, he returns the card to his deck.

"You might look at the Ten of Swords and assume many different things, but it ultimately a card of loss and the beginning of something new from that loss."