Да, это из "Случая с переводчиком".
"It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubbable men in town. No member is permitted to take the least notice of any other one. Save in the Strangers' Room, no talking is, under any circumstances, permitted, and three offences, if brought to the notice of the committee, render the talker liable to expulsion".

Maggy Lu, я примерно помнила рассказ, но таки да, это еще и моя постоянно востребованная лень. Спсб!