diff --git a/engines/nancy/ui/textbox.cpp b/engines/nancy/ui/textbox.cpp
index 13b3f93948e..e60f2232e35 100644
--- a/engines/nancy/ui/textbox.cpp
+++ b/engines/nancy/ui/textbox.cpp
@@ -173,6 +173,9 @@ void Textbox::addTextLine(const Common::String &text, uint32 autoClearTime) {
 		// Currently only used by inventory closed captions
 		_autoClearTime = g_nancy->getTotalPlayTime() + autoClearTime;
 	}
+
+	_scrollbar->resetPosition();
+	onScrollbarMove();
 }
 
 void Textbox::setOverrideFont(const uint fontID) {
@@ -206,6 +209,9 @@ void Textbox::onScrollbarMove() {
 }
 
 uint16 Textbox::getInnerHeight() const {
+	// As early as nancy3 this behavior stopped being relevant, as the original
+	// engine always scrolls down to the bottom of the entire inner surface.
+	// However, that makes the scrollbar almost unusable, so I'm not changing this.
 	const TBOX *tbox = (const TBOX *)g_nancy->getEngineData("TBOX");
 	assert(tbox);