"At table;" no date indicated, or a wrong one, but evidently after this: in fact, we find it was about the beginning of March, 1729; and had sad consequences for Wilhelmina.
"At table his Majesty told the Queen that he had Letters from Anspach; the young Margraf to be at Berlin in May for his wedding; that M.Bremer his Tutor was just coming with the ring of betrothal for Louisa.

He asked my Sister, If that gave her pleasure?
and How she would regulate her housekeeping when married?
My Sister had got into the way of telling him whatever she thought, and home-truths sometimes, without his taking it ill.

She answered with her customary frankness, That she would have a good table, which should be delicately served; and, added she, 'which shall be better than yours.

And if I have children, I will not maltreat them like you, nor force them to eat what they have an aversion to.'-- 'What do you mean by that ?' replied the King: 'what is there wanting at my table ?'--'There is this wanting,' she said, 'that one cannot have enough; and the little there is consists of coarse potherbs that nobody can eat.' The King," as was not unnatural, "had begun to get angry at her first answer: this last put him quite in a fury; but all his anger fell on my Brother and me.

He first threw a plate at my Brother's head, who ducked out of the way; he then let fly another at me, which I avoided in like manner.