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Linus' plan is to merge the Larrabee and Tyson businesses. Because it is a movie, this merger depends solely upon David marrying Elizabeth. But Linus has other plans. He's fallen in lust with Sabrina (Audrey Hepburn), the world's cutest silk-voiced brunette and the daughter of Linus' dapper chauffeur (John Williams). Linus decides to date Sabrina himself, to turn her head from David. Because it's movie, the fact she is gorgeous makes no difference to Bogie. Then again, he has Lauren Bacall, who unlike Sabrina is willing to let her hair down.
Poor, romantic, well-behaved, and innocent Sabrina. She doesn't know what to do now. But she doesn't care about the Larrabee money or power. That would be gauche, and make her less sympathetic to audiences.
How others will see it. All Billy Wilder films from the 1950s remain popular today. Hepburn is a fashion icon, Bogart is a noir icon, and Holden was an important actor for at least a quarter century, through Network. John Williams provides another familiar face, since he was one of Hitchcock's (and Wilder's) favorite character actors.
The target audience is women. Holden and (especially) Bogart are obviously too old for her, but they were proven box office draws, and she had already conquered Gregory Peck in her last film. It's unspoken, but Hepburn's unconscious motivation is to change her last name to Larrabee. She feels remorse for less than one day over changing her target from David to Linus. Romance is fine, but a ring is better.
How I felt about it. The success of 1953's Roman Holiday transformed Audrey Hepburn into a major Hollywood star. This A-movie follow-up is built around her, and even titled after her. But the formula is revised. In Roman Holiday she is a princess who has an (innocent, of course) affair with working class Gregory Peck. In Sabrina, she is from the working class, and has an (equally innocent, naturally) affair with a man from a very wealthy family.
In Roman Holiday, duty wins. In Sabrina, romance (i.e. money) wins. But it's a mixed ending in the sense that she ends up with a much older man who'd rather go to the office than spend quality time with her. Given her newly engorged bank account, this wouldn't be much of a problem for the corrupt among us, that is, any non-fictional character. But Hepburn is a good girl (she even plays a nun a few years later), which means she is likely to be lonely despite her lapdog.