LEICA ... please take the LEICA ... can I also recommend the newest Leica, the V-LUX 2 ? You will never ever want another camera after that one ... it is THE perfection. But there's also the beautiful M serie ... :)))))) LEICA, no doubt.
Maybe a dilemma or maybe not. The Leica has always been small, very quite, discrete, superb mechanically.... and expensive. She should take the Leica as her Christmas present