Scene from Blue Angel

In this scene of Blue Angel, the professor has to return the woman's undergarments to her and in this process, he is invited into her room. You can already sense that he has a crush on her but now he is nervous and you can tell because he dropped all of her cigarettes. Before he room door closed, the clown walked through her room to the other side. I feel like had significance because he eventually became a clown after marrying her. The clown look gloomy and sad to even work as a clown and this is exactly how Professor felt as a clown in the end.