“We have been living to­gether for many years. Where you go, I go.” Archibald Gracie, Hugh Woolner, other friends tried in vain to make her go. Then Woolner turned to Mr. Straus: “I’m sure nobody would object to an old gentleman like you getting in . . .”

“I will not go before the other men,” he said, and that was that. Then he and Mrs. Straus sat down together on a pair of deck chairs.

—A Night to Remember,
Walter Lord

What do readers learn about Mr. Straus from this conversation?
He wants the crewmen to let him on a lifeboat, because he is old.
He is proud and does not let his age get in the way of what he thinks is right.
He does not like being told what to do by other men.
He lets his wife tell him what to do, even if the situation is unsafe.