The Doctor, typically, was more concerned about finding his jacket than the fact someone might have been listening at the door.  Despite Dickson's assurances that he would ask the staff in the morning and he was sure it would turn up, the Doctor was quiet.

He walked the mile through the cold dark streets with his arms folded and a vanilla expression on his face.  He said almost nothing.  Rose offered to lend him her cloak, but he told her not to be daft.

'I'm not cold.  It's the principle.'  Bizarrely, he was also more upset about his jacket disappearing from the dining room than he had seemed at the loss of the TARDIS, though it might be some sort of displaced anxiety.  And his sonic screwdriver was in the pocket.  But Rose was with Dickson, who reckoned someone had simply tidied it away and the thing would turn up in the morning.  Sir George, apologetic and polite, promised to have it sent over as soon as it was found.

But the net result was that the walk to the Imperial Club was rather subdued.  Repple seemed lost in a world of his own, rather like the Doctor.  Aske talked politely to Rose, wondering how well she knew London.  He seemed interested to hear that she was going to the British Empire Exhibition, confessing that he had not been himself, but several of the people staying at the club had and proclaimed it to be a great success and very impressive.

The Doctor brightened when Aske pointed out a large, imposing building ahead of them as the Imperial Club.

'We have to be members?' he wondered.

'I shall vouch for you,' Repple announced.

'The club was established after the Great War as a focal point, a meeting place, for the dispossessed nobility of Europe and the Commonwealth,' Aske said.  'So many things ended in Flanders, not just here and in France and Germany but right across the world.'

'So many lives,' the Doctor reminded him quietly.

Aske nodded grimly, one hand thrust deep in his jacket pocket.  'The ultimate sacrifice.'

'Such a waste,' Repple added.  'And it precipitated so much more.  The Russian Revolution, for example.  There will be so much more blood before all this is ended.'

'To answer your question, Doctor, you do not have to be members,' Aske said.  'Though if you desire to stay for more than a few days, then you will be expected to provide evidence that you are of noble birth, dispossessed by conflict.'