claire has been recently much interested by conversation-if the term can be used for a communication limited mostly to gesticulations and the making of faces ( she insists i note here that she does not make faces , to which i reply that i am in better case to judge of the matter , being able to see the face in question , which she is not ) -in conversation with an old woman of the indians , much esteemed in this area as a healer , who has given her many such plants .