In The 1994 Film "Little Women"...

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There is a scene in which Jo March is searching for her manuscript, when she goes into Amy March's room to look for it, she sees it burning in the fireplace, Amy immediately says that she had nothing to do with it, and I'm wondering exactly how it wound up there in the first place for three reasons:

1) Amy said she didn't do it (as stated above)
2) Beth nor Meg could have done that because they were both asleep when Jo asked Beth where she put her manuscript
3) I highly doubt that Jo could have put it there considering that she would most likely know that placing anything that was important to her in a location in which there's a risk of it being destroyed wouldn't be a good idea, and if she put it in an area where she would remember where it was, then she would not be looking for it at all.

I don't remember the words of the scene in the movie, but I know how it happened in the book. Jo asks where it is, and Amy says she doesn't know. Amy later reveals that she put it in the fire, but she was speaking the truth in saying that she didn't know where it was, because once it's burnt up then it disappears and she really doesn't know where it is. Or something along those lines - I read it as a kid. But I remember it was all semantics. Amy doesn't lie outright, but says elusive truthful things that mislead Jo. But she definitely put it on the fire herself. She does it out of revenge because Jo wouldn't let her come to the theatre with her and Meg.

I assume in the movie she doesn't bother with semantics and truth telling and simply lies outright to protect herself.