Trying to use FaceTime in Messages, microphone is turned off

Forgive my ignorance, I just installed Mountain Lion about one hour ago. I just discovered that I can send text messages to my daughter's iPhone from my iMac, which is something that I have wanted to do for a while. This is good, but I asked myself, "What happens is I click on this video camera icon over here ?" and lo and behold, I was dumped into a FaceTime call with her. Very cool. everything was working except that she couldn't hear me. The video was working both ways, and I could hear her, but she couldn't hear me.
When I tried to call her again, I noticed on the FaceTime window that there was a "slash" across the microphone icon along the bottom, so that makes sense, I guess, the microphone is turned off somehow. The problem is that I can't seem to find any FaceTime control or System Preference that will allow me to turn it on.
Can anyone offer me any suggestions ?
Thanks.

Anticipating the question:
In the Sound Preferences window, I have the Internal microphone selected (under the Input Tab), the input volume set at 50% and I have the Use ambient noise reduction box checked.
On the Messages Audio/Video preferences page, I also have Internal Microphone set, and I can't see anything on the FaceTime preferences that seems to deal with audio input.

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