No, he doesn't have money to burn and he doesn't know this girl.

Ethan turns away from what he took for a begger. Pretty nice clothes for a begger, Ethan thought, then he shrugged and continued onwards.

He sees a middle aged Peuro Rican woman come out of a small grocery store and heads towards him. Some young men on the sidewalk pull at her clothing as she passes them, then they turn away. The woman is not that old and looks sort of pretty. Besides, Ethan is a nice guy and that bag does look rather heavy.

And a good deed is a deed done well, he thinks, Wasn't that what Dudley Doright used to say?