«A Kiss before Dying» by Ira Levin
The young man wants to get married with Dorothy next summer with her father’s permission. He seemed to be so nice, but only before the news of Dorothy’s pregnancy, because it could destroy everything. He knows enough about being poor and Dorothy is an excellent chance to forget about it till the end of his life. In fact, not Dorothy herself, but her father’s money. The most important thing in the young man’s plan is to get his approval. So, he don’t care about Dorothy, her love or their baby, he’s in love with money, this is his only passion, that’s why he convinces her, that she mustn’t have this baby. For this man money became more important than love. I think that being married to a very rich man/woman without love hardly can make anybody absolutely happy, maybe just for a while, because it’s easy to become bored of money, but not of love. On the other hand, it’s hard to be absolutely happy having no money too, because the difference between desirable and possible will always become the reason of quarrels. So, I believe that in these relations between love and money, like in many others in our life, we should search the golden mean.