In fact, he ponders with surprise: "I wonder why he left me all that money.I don""t need it!" [Note: The groans from a Depression-Era audience must have been audible.]During lunch, Cedar expresses Cobb""s function as a ""buffer"" for Deeds: "Rich people need someone to keep the crowds away.They were getting ready to perform a little of the old in-out, in-out on a weepy young devotchka they had there.Mrs.Tremont imparts the embarrassing news of the country cousin""s arrival to her daughters.One of them suggests: "Well, get rid of her." "But to impress heir eccentric, but enormously rich aunt (Florence Short), the sisters pretend to be nice to Anna.Foley was still intent on finding out who killed Mikey before leaving town.While distracting the two detectives by ordering them late supper room service, he placed bananas in heir car""s exhaust pipe, causing their car to stall, as Jen drove him to the art gallery""s warehouse in her red Mercedes.