The first dissolve signals that the situation has “heated up”: the young lovers are not sitting; they have moved to the sofa and the young woman is lying in the man’s arms. The next dissolve has them disappear from the sofa as if they were actually dissolving into it. But this new ellipsis simply indicates that somewhere offscreen there is a bed. The shot of the hand hanging up the ‘Do not disturb’ sign confirms the viewer’s intuition.
