While Scotland players stayed motionless in the field shortly after full time, dejected and defeated, some of them looked at the main stretch, while others could not stand.
Maro Itoje, the captain of England, had just raised the Calcuta Cup on his head. For Scotland, he must have wanted to see an old flame curled in the arms of a new lover.
The pain and sense of repentance that would have shared between the side of Gregor Towsend must have been overwhelming. The one who escaped? Yes, and something else.
Scotland lost this game as much as England won it. It was a great lost opportunity, one that ends with the challenging Towsend side for the covered in this year's championship.
Scotland scored twice within the first 20 minutes through Ben White and Huw Jones. Leading 10-7 in the half time, they should have been much later in the game balance.
The Scots played all the rugby. Duhan Van Der Merwe was destroying England once again, tormenting Marcus Smith and mocking the attempts of England's back to address him.
The sensation of panic caused by Van der Merwe in that first half was palpable. Not for the first time, England did not know what to do with the giant Meroder in the left wing of Scotland.
Jamie Ritchie put a game man screen but ended on the loser side
Huw Jones immerses himself for the second attempt of Scotland at the Allianz stadium but it wasn't enough
Finn Russell was desperate when his late conversion fell into a stop of Scotland in the defeat of a point of Scotland
Back to his best moment, Jamie Ritchie was a colossus in the back row. All the talk prior to the Package of England Monster Monstruiro Scotland in advance? It is not so.
The only thing England was the monster was the ball, kicking the leather in an exhibition of the first half that would have blew his eyes.
Steve Borthwick's side was abysmal. At one point, the local crowd actually began to boo before its relentless cash kick and refuse to throw the ball and play a rugby.
But the second half was a different story. Not because England suddenly began to light the style, but because Scotland lost its course completely.
After being so influential in the first half, Van Der Merwe was largely anonymous after the break until he scored just death to see the possibility of victory.
Finn Russell withdrew the conversion of the posts to put the tin lid in what was undoubtedly one of its poorest days against England.
Scotland needed Russell at his best here if they claimed a fifth consecutive historical victory over England.
But, honestly, I wasn't close to that. Russell lost three conversions, leaving six points out there.
A couple of cup was also lost, one of which almost led to an attempt in England right on the middle time cusp. His hand kick was also suspicious, missing touch with a penalty in the second half. Very often the show star in this accessory, Russell was irregular and out of place.
But that was not the reason why Scotland lost the game. They lost because, collectively, there was no failure to apply more marker pressure on England during a first dominant half.
To enter for part time only three points, England could probably not believe its luck. They had no game plan that is not kicking the ball and waiting for the best. It was something horrible on Borthwick's side.
That is why this should endure so much for Scotland. Sometimes in the past, they have come here to Twickenham and have been impressed by England teams that were too good in the day.
That was not the case here. Actually, at all. Scotland surpassed England for three attempts, but somehow lost the game.
Maro Itoje lifts the Calcuta Cup for England after a nervous crushing victory
Duhan van der Merwe played in the corner to give hope to the Scots, but the conversion slid for
Even the attempt that England scored, arriving in the first half through Tommy Freeman, seemed doubtful.
There was nothing conclusive in TV repetitions to suggest that the ball had been legally founded. It seemed sustained. But nevertheless an attempt was granted.
This was one of the poorest and most limited teams that Towsend has faced throughout his mandate, but Scotland could not do the job yet.
An epic proportions opportunity not only to make history by winning five in the rebound against Auld's enemy, but to revive the campaign of the six Nations of Scotland this year.
Scotland did not approach enough from the bank. Ewan Ashman was poor when he arrived in Hooker and the Lineaut hesitated at key moments.
England's defense, meanwhile, remained strong. Ultimately, that is what laid the foundations for this tense and heartbreaking victory.
They ran into the line. While for Scotland, their title aspirations have risen to smoke for another year.
This will hurt as much as any defeat of the Towsend era.
Scotland exploded his great chances of making history.