"That's why I have less faith in her than others," Strange explains. That's why he's spent this whole conversation about the Ringmaster with hesitancies and doubts, just naysaying and 'I don't know'ing Peridot's feelings about her at every opportunity.

"She doesn't know what she's doing—hell, it's possible she never knew what she was doing. So you can't expect her to be any help if you do manage to find her in the Wyldlands."