Well, it has only been an hour, right? You don't know how long it takes talking dogs and cats to come to an agreement, but the ones that don't talk sometimes live together for years without fully resolving anything. You'll just give them as long as it takes; what else can you do? You sit and wait for a few more hours that slowly bleed into days and weeks. Eventually the pair do come out of the room, paw in paw.
"We've got some news," Russell says.
"We're getting married," the other Russell says.
You bid them congratulations and best wishes, then the two part to marital bliss and you're alone in an empty nest. The solitude wakes you from your dream.