She seems to be refusing to talk with me and I think I've used all of my items on her as well, but I'm going to keep at it. I got the other two rooms solved.
I figured it out. The problem is that I thought I was trying to do something, while in reality my character was trying to make logic sense of the situation. It was probably the one thing that I hadn't tried (and I'm surprised that I hadn't tried it). Thanks for the help getting through it.